Hello everyone!!
so this blog is close to the last one i must say i am pretty proud of myself for not forgetting to update you all on my life !! Now i'm going to try to focus as hard as i can to write this as my roomie is having a funny noise off with a friend on skype so im super trying to focus ahhaha.
so! what is new in my african life since i last wrote you all.. I had to leave my beloved GULU! ahhh.. let me tell you right now no offense to my beautiful canadians this ripped my heart out ten times more than any goodbye! I think what was so hard was that i can't guarantee that i will see them all again.. I can try but a lot will go to there mothers or leave town or anything can happen so the only hopes i can hold onto is one day seeing them in heaven! But it was so hard Gulu is my home. I was there my whole trip so every problem or hardship or anything i have had in Africa i have experienced in Gulu.. So saying goodbye was so hard and i hope to never have to do it again! So i am happy with the work i have done there and i know the difference i made there and i felt in my heart leaving that God was pleased with my work and he was telling me it was okay to go.. but it still hurt me so bad...
BUT.. i am here now in Suubi! so let me tell you about this place.. this is Suubi so this is a children's village so all the cute little choir kids you see singing '' I AM NOT FORGOTTEN' i am living with.. yeah... im pretty pumped about it! so they are moved here after babies home and they get a house with a mother and there is bout 6 kids per house, and they go to school there is a clinic and church and everything.. It is segregated off its not a town its just watoto houses here gated in, its on the top of a big mountain/hill its beautiful. So there is 4 children's villages and this is the only with a babies home so i am working in the babies home and living above it. So i will soon find out what its like to wake up by screaming babies daily! So the beautiful thing bout my new location is that this village and babies home is the same that is on the watoto sites all the photos and videos is all from this village.. So when i came to africa in my mind this is the places i was headed.. and after 3 months i am finally where i thought i was coming! So not that i didn't love the rest of my trip but it is just such a beautiful way to end the trip you know. Arriving here the sun was setting and we were driving up the hill and the palm trees and kids playing and the beautiful homes and the gardens i started to cry. God just said to me as i arrived '' it's ok, i want you here, and your here for a reason'' and that was the confirmation i needed because when i left Gulu i thought my trip is over .. This month is going to drag cause i am done in Uganda. But driving up here i had such a peace and a happiness and i just can't even wait to see what insane things God pulls out here! :) Also we live on a second floor so we have a beautiful patio over looking rolling hills/mountians covered in grass and trees and such beauty. And if your wondering why i call them mountian hills is because there bigger then a hill cause you can't drive over them, and smaller then a mountian cause theres no snow on top. SO therefor there mountain/hills hahaha! So it is truly amazing i have heard the sunrises are wonderful! I can't wait till my morning shift tomorrow to sit on my patio like the old lady im not and drink coffee and watch the sunrise and thank god that he is so awesome!
So on the note of wonderful things some of you may know i connected so much with a baby my first week here in kampala and she was wonderful i fell in love and when she was moved here to the village i am at i cried and cried and begged god that one day i would get to see her again, i don't know what it was about her but she comforted me when i needed her most when i arrived here and i was scared and i just needed a baby cuddle she was my girl, so i have felt so attached to her always. SO on the most fantabulous note i arrived today and i went to the babies room and THERE SHE WAS!!! my girl standing smiling at me as if she was waiting for me to come!! I picked her up and held her so tight i felt like i was being re-united with my long lost daughter the way i held her! I think she recognized me because she was smiling and laughing and wrapped her arms around my neck while i hugged her and allowed me to endlessly hug her and kiss her so i think she still knows me! If not its ok because she let me love her so were good! So its safe to say im a happy little muzungu over here! happier than ever to know i see her daily! its nice as well because all the babies from when i first got here other than just her there all here as well! so i am ending my trip with the same babies i started with, its kind of beautiful! So i will be spending a lot of time with them im happy that im living with them so i can get as much black baby cuddles as possible before i leave here and am surrounded by white people :P So life is so wonderful!!
so now i need to go onto my happy little cindy lou hoo self! i most likely spelt that wrong.. sorry. SO! i am so happy because i finally got my christmas! FINALLY RIGHT i was waiting because i have not been in the christmas spirit and i wondered if i ever would! So we had a volunteer christmas party but also attending was all the people who work with watoto internationally but live there now, so basically a lot of mazungus and so everyone dressed nice it was in a wonderful location nice room with nice christmas decorations and christmas trees and christmas carols! and A SANTA!! yay yay yay!!! but for the record anyone seen a black santa? cause i did after this.. HAHAH. but he came and we went up one by one and sat on his lap to get a gift, it was so much fun the little girl inside me was freaking out! also we got to have a nice big dinner, not typical canadian style but it was a feast of canadian style foods it was so awesome and desert!! yumm! and then later that day we went to the christmas cantata !! It was so awesome !!!! It was a play type thing of the christmas story but it was also dancing and singing and a big choir it was so awesome the dancing was wicked they did all different styles some lyrical and some crazy hip hop break dancing stuff and some african style it was seriously wonderful! TO TOP IT OFF they had a light that went around the whole stadium and it made white dots all over us so it looked like it was snowing in the room ! and on all of the walls was a video playing of a snowy street so it was seriously wonderful i was so emotional the whole time i was so happy I GOT MY WHITE CHRISTMAS !! So im happy because my one thing was having my first christmas alone was scary for me, but it seems like god has it in his hands because that day made my whole christmas. So as for my Christmas day ill be skyping my parents to open some gifts! and than me and my roomies will take our favorite babies to church ! and then the babies home is having a nice lunch than for dinner we are cooking ...MEXICAN!!!? i know that is the same face i made! so since we dont have the right resources here to make a typical meal the girls are cooking up a big mexican feast. I mean hey as long as your feasting on christmas its all cool beans right !! So i am happy with the way things are going and im doing ok im trying to soak up every moment im here cause i come home in 5 weeks! ahh so insane ! i am so looking forward to seeing all of you who have been supporting me daily! i can't wait ! It will be nice so please keep me in your prayers! and thank you for everything !!
so i am going to add a song this is some lyrics in the cantata that Marry and Joseph sang in the play when marry found out she would be bearing jesus , they sang this and it was beautiful and it really encouraged me in my life to keep doing what im doing and coming to suubi i question god like are you sure you want me there cause i love gulu and i could do so much more, but coming here i saw i am to be here. So although its so hard to trust in God cause we have so many questions but in the end who are we to question cause he knows the plan he knows what is best for us he knows what we need so we just have to let go and let him decide.
be unto me according to your word I give myself to thee just a servant in your land, though i don't understand
your purpose or your plan still i say be unto me..
thank you guys for reading and your prayers! xxoo!
have a merry christmas all of you ! be blessed spend lots of time with your famlies they truly are a gift from god! enjoy the food and the presents and don't forget God on christmas! LOVE YAs
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