finally feeling at home :)

Hey all !


This is blog now number two ! So I named this post finally at home. I have a reason! 
I have been in Uganda for 3 weeks officially yesterday. Let me tell you, it is insane moving to a country that is so culturally different than everything I am used to, I mean its one thing to be away from my family for more than a week but its another thing to go from driving on cement roads everywhere I go to catching a boda-boda ( motorcycle ) on dirt roads with people selling me bananas off a basket sitting on there head! So its safe to say the culture shock was the most insane part. I have been to foreign countries before but it is a very different situation when you are living with these people and having the same type of lifestyle as them. Waking up in the morning going to work where they work. Walking the streets they walk. Going to church every sunday with them, getting to know them and seeing that they all are dirty and some don't have anything but they are the most beautiful people I have ever come across in my life. Every word they say you want to know more about them. 
So when i first came here i had to deal with the culture shock and with being alone and learning to find my way in a foreign country that for some reason at times it made me feel younger. I felt lost like a child. Through time the issues became blessings its wonderful here, and after 3 weeks i have finally become completely comfortable with where i am and i am so happy im here and i thank God every day that i am. I am here for a reason and i can't wait for Gods plan. So i guess you could say im home :) I am happy , im comfortable, i feel safe, im making beautiful friends and lots of African mommy's. what can i say ... IM A LOCAL :P


So as for life lately, I can't write a whole lot on the things that have been happening at work because since i wrote my post the last time i have only worked once because i have been sick so much ! I am okay now ! So i will write little blerbs of random stories ! Hope you don't get confused :) 


My roommate is on a little trip away now with the rescue team they go to a village far from here that is very poor and witness to people there. While being there she actually found a baby! The babies mother is mentally ill and taking care of this baby. So she called us and we have worked all the details out and she will be taking the baby with her when she comes home !! So we have a new addition to the watoto family next week !! I am so excited. 


The other day i had a nanny tell me '' i love your shirt where did you get it '' well me confused since it was a plain plaid shirt that every single canadian teenager over wears all the time i said uh.. canada.. and she responded '' i wish that i could shop for beautiful blouces like that, you know i will make lots of money one day and shop in canada and i will buy lots of those shirts'' I was so shocked by that because i have like four plaid shirts and i dont wear them ever but to her it was a beautiful shirt. So i have made the choice when i am done at this location i am going to leave her that plaid shirt , plus others with it. She needs it more then i do!  CANT WAIT TO SEE HER FACE :)


Lastly ... yesterday a baby was diagnosed with cerebral palsy , he is only 1 and a half months old which is so insane ! he is being sent to the city on friday to be better treated and then they are allowing him to be put for adoption through watoto. Watoto doesn't normally let children be adopted only when they have medical issues that they could benifit and be better treated for there issue in a western country that is more evolved and can give them a better chance at survival, so we will have to pray that there is a family that will adopt him because here in africa they can treat him but they don't have nearly enough technology that america or canada would have to treat him! 


Also all of our clothes that we got for the village have come in ! We have enough garments to cloth 600 children ! We also got enough groceries to feed 200 families ! So this is so amazing and we are so excited about it, we are hopefully going to be handing it all out next week so i will have to let you know how it goes !! 


So everything is good in Africa right now , things are amazing my roommates are truly amazing people and i would be lost without them, they were a God sent for sure ! God is doing amazing things in this country, he turns something around everyday. 
My biggest fears in coming here would be that i wouldn't be used in lots of ways and i wouldn't fit in and i would hate my roommates and those things haunted me at night when i would go to bed, but God had a plan all along, I have never been happier and felt more alive.. there is a whole other world here that living my life in Canada im sad that i had no idea about it! So i am taking every chance i get to learn about this country and the people because they all have a story meant to be heard and they are all beautiful to God, they have nothing and yet they are the happiest people. We as christians and people could learn a lot from the way they live ! Even having running water in your house is a blessing ! Take it from me, I had to hold in my pee for an 8 hour shift at work cause they have no running water.. I also saw a little boy today sitting over a creek of dirty water and he filled his water bottle and before he drank his bottle of brown water he got down on his knees and thanked God for it.. His filthy brown water full of germs... I have never wanted to cry so much in my life..So i hope you all remember everything you have is such a blessing and a gift from God. You may not see it but it truly is.. the small things in life are small to you, but huge to other people across the world. 
Well powers out and my candles about to burn out so im off to bed!! I hope you all enjoyed my blog!!! Have good day everyone :)


ps.. hopefully i didnt make to many spelling mistakes this time !!