Wow, 20 more days! That seems so soon, but I still have quite a few things left to do in preparation.  Below this post is a picture of the primary school kids get to work with in Kamonkoli.  How stinking cute are they?!  I will be working with our equivalent to kindergarten and first grade kids as well as a couple older kids that would qualify as special education.  I get to help with PE in the school and do some one on one work with some of the older kids.  The girl in the picture with them worked with them last summer and has told me so many great things about them, which makes me so much more excited!

BIGGER THan me

Good morning!  So yesterday I purchased my plane ticket; this is about to get real.  In less than a month I will be in one of my favorite places in the world, Uganda!  Now all I have to do is send the rest of the money out to Colorado to the HUM offices.  YIKES! Anyways, I'm gonna be honest, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little nervous for this adventure.  Traveling, aka flying, by myself is terrifying to me, but how else am I gonna get there? 
Alright, so I'm gonna get down to the purpose of my trip.  The past couple months have been pretty rough and challenging to say the least.  There has been so much going on that I almost feel like I'm losing myself in the madness.  As soon as I got back from Uganda in 2009 I knew I wanted to go back at some point in my life.  I'll be honest, 3 months ago I would never have imagined that I'd be going back already.  Because of a series of events I've allowed myself to selfishly make this decision for myself by myself.  I do feel like it is a somewhat selfish decision because I'm hoping to be changed again while I'm there.  I'm hoping that the Lord will use the wonderful people that I meet to transform me more into His likeness.  I'm sick of doing the same thing everyday.  I used to love my job, but lately the sameness of it all is irritating me.  I'm sick of caring more about the kids' education than they do.  I'm sick of coming to work everyday and feeling like I have to convince them that their education is important for them to succeed in life.  I'm just sick of how selfish I feel everyday for not wanting to be here.  Now don't get me wrong, I do love these kids and wouldn't want to work anywhere else, but I just need to do something bigger than me to put everything in my life in perspective.  My counselor told me that I need to look at my life from 30,000 feet above.  I'm not sure he thought I would take it literally, but I'm a very literal person so why not?  I want to stop choosing to feel selfish about everything that happens.  I don't really like the person I've become in the past couple months because I tend to somehow make everything about me...nobody likes that person.  I'm sick of having pity parties for myself by myself.  I'm ready to surround myself with something that is so much bigger than me that I don't even THINK about myself!  Uganda here I come!

Soooo...I have decided to blog today because I'm bored in class.  The boys are making a foldable for context clues and have chosen to just play with their scissors (scary, I know).  Anyways, in regards to my trip I have yet to purchase my plane ticket (I know I know it's cutting it a little bit close).  The good news is these international flights fluctuate in cost every day, so today they're actually cheaper than they were yesterday!  I haven't exactly made a 100% commitment to an organization yet.  I'm between International Volunteer HQ and working with the same organization I met up with last time, Hines Ugandan Ministries.  I'm hoping HUM will work out because I'm familiar with the staff and there is another girl from Colorado who has been there a couple times before that is going for the summer.  Hopefully if that works out we can travel together for most of the flights, which will hopefully help my flying anxiety!  The only negative about HUM is that it's a bit more expensive :/.  I'm gonna take a shot in the dark and ask if anybody has any idea how I would purchase a micro sim card that I can use in Uganda for an iPad?  I hope this entry wasn't too boring! I'll try to make the rest more interesting :)

Hello all! I'm going to get right down to it...I'm going to Uganda again in the middle of May for about two and a half months and wanted to make this blog to keep a record of my day to day adventures and thought that maybe someone else would enjoy reading it!  I'm not so sure how effective this will be for 2 reasons, 1. I'm not sure what type of internet connection I'll have while I'm there and 2. I don't know how well I will keep up with it.  I think I will do pretty well updating though because I enjoy reading the journal I kept last time I went, so that should be pretty good motivation. That's all for now.  My trip isnt for another month so I probably won't be updating too much until then! Thanks for reading!