Is the summer over already!? I feel like I just got here. I can't believe I am flying out tonight! The past few weeks in the village have been amazing, words cannot describe how great those kids are. We have had so much fun everyday...
I went on Safari last week for 3 days up north. I went with another volunteer from Ireland. We drove up on Tuesday and stayed in army tents with beds in them. The restaurant/bar was really nice and the food was great. We were staying in the middle of the game park so we had warthogs and hippos in our camp, that was sweet. On Wednesday morning we woke up when it was still dark outside and got in our safari trucks to catch the little ferry boat across the nile to begin our adventure. It was beautiful watching the sun rise over the nile. From there we went on a four hour safari and saw giraffes, elephants, lions, antelope, monkeys, buffalo, and other wild animals. Then we went back to the camp for lunch. After lunch we went back to the nile for a boat trip to the major falls in Murchison. We saw hundrens of hippos, seriously, and tons of crocs. We came so close to them! After that we went back for dinner. Thursday morning we hiked up to the falls for a couple hours then drove 6 hours back to Kamapala...
We got to Kampala around 5:30. I got to Mukono around 6, then I had to take a mutatu (taxi van) to Kisoga which takes a good 45 minutes. Of course my van didnt leave until close to 7. The road is an awful, bumby, dirt road and I hate taking it at night. Tina had said storms were coming but they all seemed to be going around the village, so that was good news. The mutatu finally leaves, with 20+ people in a 14 passanger van as usual. It gets dark half way there and there is massive lightening and thunder but no rain. So we reach Kisoga a little after 8. Its black outside. I get bombarded by boda boda (motercycle) drivers when I get off the mutatu, and my usual driver is not there. So I am a little nervous being alone at night. So I pick a boda driver and we hurry because at this point its starting to rain, and the only way to get to my village is by moterbike, thats how bad the little trail/road is. We leave and no more than half way there it starts down pouring. And let me just say that when it rains in Africa, it RAINS in Africa. So here we are in the midst of this huge thunderstorm. He pulls of at a random house/hut along the road because we obviously can't continue. We are soaking wet and walk into this house with an older lady laying on a mat on the floor and about seven children. None of them speak English, and I come to find out my boda driver desnt either. So we had small talk in the very little luganda that I know and sat there for a good 30 minutes. I loved just sitting in that house the family, listening to the rain pound on the tine roof, sitting my candle light. It was truly a God moment and really experiencing Africa... When the rain let up again we left, but the storm was still going strong. We sped through the now river to my village. The boda couldn't go down the lane to my house because it was too muddy, so here I am at 9pm walking through the tea plantation in muddy water, in the middle of a thunderstorm! I was laughing so hard. I got to my house and 10 kids were crammed inside with Tina waiting for me to come home. Water was just dripping everywhere from me. It was quite the experience...
Yesterday was my farewell assembly from the kids. I will tell you about it later because I don't want to start crying again in the internet cafe. It was very touching and soooo emotional. I will seriously miss those kids to the moon and back.
I fly out tonight so this is my final post from Uganda, but I will be writing more to fill in the gaps of the summer and reflect. Thank you all for supporting me through all of this financially and through prayer. This summer was life changing as I knew it would be. I fell inlove with the country, culture, people, and learned more than I ever thought possible. THANK YOU!!!!
grace, peace, and love,
bets
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Friday, July 20, 2007
Salaama...home sweet home.
I don't even know where to begin... The kids in Salaama are amazing!
We have been so busy the past week. The kids play futbol (soccer) almost everyday in the afternoon. Even Headmaster Baker and Master Cossi play. It is quite intense, only the older kids play. They also play barefoot! I would say these kids easily rival Hope's soccer team. I decided to challenge Master Cossi to a match and pretty much got my butt kicked yesterday, but is was so much fun! I am definitely feeling it today!
I have spent my days teaching in the morning the P1 class, except on the days that they teach me luganda. I am getting pretty good, I think. Yesterday Tina and I took them out in the grass and taught them the Hokey pokey, it was so funny. They loved it! In the afternoon I just hop around the older classes and teach whatever. Mainly Social Studies and English. We had to teach P5 that there are 7 continents in the world and explain to the P1 class that they live in Uganda :)
After futbol I go down to the well with the kids to fetch water for the night. It is a good time to bond with the kids and just spend quality time with the boarders. Tina and I got speakers for my ipod so the kids come over at night for dance parties. Or they come over to color and just hang out. Another boy that I have gotten really close with is Jackson. He is a complete orphan. His mom just died a couple months ago. He is the eldest of 5 children and the Director of the schoool brought him in and waived his schools fees. I getting him things like a new uniform, soap, shoes, etc before I leave.
Things that you may not have known... We got an african puppy named Real. There are leopards in the tea plantation at night that come down from the mountain, I milked a cow for the first time ever, we frequently buy chapati (like pita bread) for the boarders and you would think they just one the lottery by their reaction to getting bread, I eat posho (corn flour and water) and beans everyday for lunch, escali (night security man) scares us nightly on late night latrine runs and he pops out of nowhere, the sky is unbelievable at night,I LOVE UGANDA.
The kids here know how to worship the Lord like no other I have seen before. They go into the church late at night, and early every morning to pray and worship. You can hear the drums and their song. I can't describe what it sounds like other than heavenly. I read this verse and I don't think it could be any more true, especially for the kids in my village...
"I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure." Luke 10:21
grace, peace and LOVE!
We have been so busy the past week. The kids play futbol (soccer) almost everyday in the afternoon. Even Headmaster Baker and Master Cossi play. It is quite intense, only the older kids play. They also play barefoot! I would say these kids easily rival Hope's soccer team. I decided to challenge Master Cossi to a match and pretty much got my butt kicked yesterday, but is was so much fun! I am definitely feeling it today!
I have spent my days teaching in the morning the P1 class, except on the days that they teach me luganda. I am getting pretty good, I think. Yesterday Tina and I took them out in the grass and taught them the Hokey pokey, it was so funny. They loved it! In the afternoon I just hop around the older classes and teach whatever. Mainly Social Studies and English. We had to teach P5 that there are 7 continents in the world and explain to the P1 class that they live in Uganda :)
After futbol I go down to the well with the kids to fetch water for the night. It is a good time to bond with the kids and just spend quality time with the boarders. Tina and I got speakers for my ipod so the kids come over at night for dance parties. Or they come over to color and just hang out. Another boy that I have gotten really close with is Jackson. He is a complete orphan. His mom just died a couple months ago. He is the eldest of 5 children and the Director of the schoool brought him in and waived his schools fees. I getting him things like a new uniform, soap, shoes, etc before I leave.
Things that you may not have known... We got an african puppy named Real. There are leopards in the tea plantation at night that come down from the mountain, I milked a cow for the first time ever, we frequently buy chapati (like pita bread) for the boarders and you would think they just one the lottery by their reaction to getting bread, I eat posho (corn flour and water) and beans everyday for lunch, escali (night security man) scares us nightly on late night latrine runs and he pops out of nowhere, the sky is unbelievable at night,I LOVE UGANDA.
The kids here know how to worship the Lord like no other I have seen before. They go into the church late at night, and early every morning to pray and worship. You can hear the drums and their song. I can't describe what it sounds like other than heavenly. I read this verse and I don't think it could be any more true, especially for the kids in my village...
"I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure." Luke 10:21
grace, peace and LOVE!
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Hey!
Wow, it has been a while since I last wrote. Sorry! Things have been so crazy here....
I didn't end up going back to the ranch last week because of a last minute change of plans I went to Gulu! The guy who works for cornerstone in Gulu is Laker, and he happened to be in kampala and said I could go to Gulu for the week so I went!
I was placed on a bus on Tuesday morning and rode by myself for six hours up to Gulu, then Laker picked me up in town. For those of you who aren't familiar with Africa, Gulu is a war torn area. It is peaceful now but up until a couple years ago the rebel forces (LRA) were very active in the area, and abducted children as child soldiers. They killed massive amounts of people and the community is trying to piece together their lives. I went to one IDP camp (internally displaced persons) that had 31,000 people living in it. They live 8-12 in a little hut, because their homes have been destroyed in the villages. We helped builed trenches for the water wells when I was there.
Laker and I worked with a group called Restore International for the week. It was two families from the states, who were coming to see the projects they support. So we painted a school and talked to kids, went to the camps and just heard their stories. The difference between the kids in Kampala and the kids in Gulu is that half of these kids up north have been traumatized by the war. I stayed in the girls home when I was there. Which is 16 girls who are single or double orphans or, their families can't afford them. The boys home in Gulu has 16 as well. Three of those boys were abducted by the LRA at one point in time. Their stories are unbelievable. Laker is the head of both of those homes, and is from Gulu as well.
I left Gulu on Friday, went to the Ranch for a night, came back saturday morning for Sarah and Philip's church wedding, stayed the night in Kampala, then went to Mukono on Sunday afternoon, then went to my village called Samaala on Tuesday afternoon...
My village..... IS BEAUTIFUL!! I live in a tiny tiny tiny house (25x8ft) with my roommate Tina. She is from Australia and has been here for 4 months already. We live on a Tea Plantation, so it looks a little like Ireland, except we have banana trees everywhere! its very green and tropical. we are placed between to mountains. I can't wait to post pictures of it when I get home. The village population is about 200 and we are the only white people, so we stand out a bit. There are about 180 kids at the school i teach at, 27 are boarding students. The youngest is Juma, he is 6 and I have fallen in love with him! Some of the kids are from the village and the others commute up to 2 hours walking every morning for school! The school is called Alpha Omega, and I am teaching P1 (6-7 yrs old) English and math, and P2 english. Juma is in my P1 class :) ... The kids understand English but do not like speaking it in the younger classes, so I am learning Luganda very fast!
Water.... no running water... no pumping well... the kids, village members, and us, have to walk 10-15 minutes to a natural well (where water runs down from the mountain) to collect water in large plastic containers. I am trying to learn how to carry it on my head like everyone else, but it is not as easy as it looks, trust me. We are suppose to have electricity but it is off more than it is on. I enjoy living by candle light though. The bathrooms, well I don't know how to describe them. A tiny cement room with a tiny rectangle cut out of the cement on the floor...Enough said.
Okay, school was cancelled in Thursday and Friday because of a conference, so I decided I would go back to Gulu for the weekend because I loved it so much! I left early Thursday morning, met Laker in Kampala 4 hours later... **side note: to get to my village one must take a taxi van (mutatu) with 20+ people from Kampala to Mukono (45 minutes), switch mutatus and go another 45 min to Kisogu, then take a boda boda (motorbike) for 20 minutes to my village. However, one ende up waiting for a boda in the village for an hour because it is sooooo remote!** Then we took a bus to Gulu and arrived at 9pm. I hung out with the girls in the home on Friday and then on Saturday we went to a different IDP camp that had 27,000 ppl in it. We painted a banner with the kids there that will be combined with a banner kids painted in Kampala to show unity between the regions. There is a lot of tension still between different tribes in the north and south. I had a BLAST with the kids! We bought pop for all of them and we spent most of the day there. They were so happy to paint and be kids again!
Then I left early this morning and now I am back in Mukono, heading to my village soon. I know this is long, and I left out a lot of details, but I will fill in the gaps later. I am sure the pictures will say it all once they are posted!
I hope this finds you all well!! Miss you!!
Grace and Peace,
bets
ps. I booked a 3 day safari for my last week here! yay!
Wow, it has been a while since I last wrote. Sorry! Things have been so crazy here....
I didn't end up going back to the ranch last week because of a last minute change of plans I went to Gulu! The guy who works for cornerstone in Gulu is Laker, and he happened to be in kampala and said I could go to Gulu for the week so I went!
I was placed on a bus on Tuesday morning and rode by myself for six hours up to Gulu, then Laker picked me up in town. For those of you who aren't familiar with Africa, Gulu is a war torn area. It is peaceful now but up until a couple years ago the rebel forces (LRA) were very active in the area, and abducted children as child soldiers. They killed massive amounts of people and the community is trying to piece together their lives. I went to one IDP camp (internally displaced persons) that had 31,000 people living in it. They live 8-12 in a little hut, because their homes have been destroyed in the villages. We helped builed trenches for the water wells when I was there.
Laker and I worked with a group called Restore International for the week. It was two families from the states, who were coming to see the projects they support. So we painted a school and talked to kids, went to the camps and just heard their stories. The difference between the kids in Kampala and the kids in Gulu is that half of these kids up north have been traumatized by the war. I stayed in the girls home when I was there. Which is 16 girls who are single or double orphans or, their families can't afford them. The boys home in Gulu has 16 as well. Three of those boys were abducted by the LRA at one point in time. Their stories are unbelievable. Laker is the head of both of those homes, and is from Gulu as well.
I left Gulu on Friday, went to the Ranch for a night, came back saturday morning for Sarah and Philip's church wedding, stayed the night in Kampala, then went to Mukono on Sunday afternoon, then went to my village called Samaala on Tuesday afternoon...
My village..... IS BEAUTIFUL!! I live in a tiny tiny tiny house (25x8ft) with my roommate Tina. She is from Australia and has been here for 4 months already. We live on a Tea Plantation, so it looks a little like Ireland, except we have banana trees everywhere! its very green and tropical. we are placed between to mountains. I can't wait to post pictures of it when I get home. The village population is about 200 and we are the only white people, so we stand out a bit. There are about 180 kids at the school i teach at, 27 are boarding students. The youngest is Juma, he is 6 and I have fallen in love with him! Some of the kids are from the village and the others commute up to 2 hours walking every morning for school! The school is called Alpha Omega, and I am teaching P1 (6-7 yrs old) English and math, and P2 english. Juma is in my P1 class :) ... The kids understand English but do not like speaking it in the younger classes, so I am learning Luganda very fast!
Water.... no running water... no pumping well... the kids, village members, and us, have to walk 10-15 minutes to a natural well (where water runs down from the mountain) to collect water in large plastic containers. I am trying to learn how to carry it on my head like everyone else, but it is not as easy as it looks, trust me. We are suppose to have electricity but it is off more than it is on. I enjoy living by candle light though. The bathrooms, well I don't know how to describe them. A tiny cement room with a tiny rectangle cut out of the cement on the floor...Enough said.
Okay, school was cancelled in Thursday and Friday because of a conference, so I decided I would go back to Gulu for the weekend because I loved it so much! I left early Thursday morning, met Laker in Kampala 4 hours later... **side note: to get to my village one must take a taxi van (mutatu) with 20+ people from Kampala to Mukono (45 minutes), switch mutatus and go another 45 min to Kisogu, then take a boda boda (motorbike) for 20 minutes to my village. However, one ende up waiting for a boda in the village for an hour because it is sooooo remote!** Then we took a bus to Gulu and arrived at 9pm. I hung out with the girls in the home on Friday and then on Saturday we went to a different IDP camp that had 27,000 ppl in it. We painted a banner with the kids there that will be combined with a banner kids painted in Kampala to show unity between the regions. There is a lot of tension still between different tribes in the north and south. I had a BLAST with the kids! We bought pop for all of them and we spent most of the day there. They were so happy to paint and be kids again!
Then I left early this morning and now I am back in Mukono, heading to my village soon. I know this is long, and I left out a lot of details, but I will fill in the gaps later. I am sure the pictures will say it all once they are posted!
I hope this finds you all well!! Miss you!!
Grace and Peace,
bets
ps. I booked a 3 day safari for my last week here! yay!
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Weddings!
Hallo!
So I am finally back in Kampala. It has been such a fun and busy week. I went to the Ranch last Tuesday morning. Josephats is the guy who works for Cornerstone who helps with the visitors. He just graduated from the University and is so much fun. He takes me everywhere to make sure I am safe. The whole organazation is amazing. It was a two hour drive up there in the Mutatu, which is a taxi van. The drive was rough because there were so many potholes in the road, but I survived.
When we arrived we put my stuff in the "cottages". Which is a hut in a circle shape. It is cement with a grass roof, no electricity, and no running water. It was so beautiful and clean. I felt like I was in paradise. It was kind of fun only having a lantern at night. I had the whole hut to myself.
Josephats then gave me a tour of the ranch. I met the headmasters of the primary, secondary, and boys academy. After that I went with the other American voluteers there to help a primary teacher build a hut for a local widow. We went through the bush with meshedis, cut down branches, carried them 30 minutes farther into the bush and nailed them to the frame that was already started from the previous day. We worked on that for a few hours. Then we headed back to the cottages for dinner.
At eight we went to the boys academy to teach computers. They were just recently donated so a lot of the boys have never used them. We taught pretty basic skills, like how to use a mouse. The Academy is "A" level school here which is the equivelence of grades 12 and 13 in the states. It is a two year prep before they go to the University. Then they recieve their degree in three years, so they graduated the same time as students in the US. These guys at the Ranch are ages 18-22 and live there in dorms.
The second day I was there I went to the primary school and read to third graders. There were 101 students in one classroom! So I had a group of about 20. It was challenging but fun. We read with them everyday at 10:30 and 3:30. In between we go have lunch with the academy guys and find other work to do in the afternoon. We returned on Thursday evening for the wedding.
Two people who work for Cornerstone are getting married, Sarah and Phillip. Sarah invited me and three other americans to the traditional wedding which was yesterday, Saturday. We had to get traditional clothes made last week. We went up to Fort Portal where she is from on Friday and staying the night in a hotel in order to be at her house in time for the wedding since it was a four hour drive. We arrived at 12 and waited for the Phillip and his family and members of his tribe to arrive. It was beautifu. THey had two large white tents set up with flowers everwhere and chairs for everyone to sit in. Then there were two couches and facing eathother with a coffee table in between. So each tent is behind each couch so that when everyone is sitting, the two tribes are facing eachothers. They put us in the very front row because we were "special visitors" so we got to see everything. It was an all day event where Phillip and the men in his family sit on the couch and negociate the bride price with Sarah's father, grandfather, and brother. It wasn't in English but we followed alnog. About every 30 min Phillip's family and friends would go bring soda, sugar, salt, money, goats, and ultimately a cow. When the gifts were accepted and the negociating was over, there was a feast. THere were about 200 people there. At the closing ceremony they signed a certificate giving Sarah away to marry Phillip this coming Saturday in a church. I was an amazing experiece and a great way to understand the culture better. I was so honored to be there. I will post pictures when I get back.
So that was my weekend. I am doing laundry today and then heading back to the Ranch on Tuesday. Will return saturday for the wedding, then off to Mukono on Sunday to start my teaching placement!
I have been healthy since I got here so please continue to pray for that and safety when traveling. I am having a wonderful time and loving every minute here! Thanks for everthing!
Grace and Peace
So I am finally back in Kampala. It has been such a fun and busy week. I went to the Ranch last Tuesday morning. Josephats is the guy who works for Cornerstone who helps with the visitors. He just graduated from the University and is so much fun. He takes me everywhere to make sure I am safe. The whole organazation is amazing. It was a two hour drive up there in the Mutatu, which is a taxi van. The drive was rough because there were so many potholes in the road, but I survived.
When we arrived we put my stuff in the "cottages". Which is a hut in a circle shape. It is cement with a grass roof, no electricity, and no running water. It was so beautiful and clean. I felt like I was in paradise. It was kind of fun only having a lantern at night. I had the whole hut to myself.
Josephats then gave me a tour of the ranch. I met the headmasters of the primary, secondary, and boys academy. After that I went with the other American voluteers there to help a primary teacher build a hut for a local widow. We went through the bush with meshedis, cut down branches, carried them 30 minutes farther into the bush and nailed them to the frame that was already started from the previous day. We worked on that for a few hours. Then we headed back to the cottages for dinner.
At eight we went to the boys academy to teach computers. They were just recently donated so a lot of the boys have never used them. We taught pretty basic skills, like how to use a mouse. The Academy is "A" level school here which is the equivelence of grades 12 and 13 in the states. It is a two year prep before they go to the University. Then they recieve their degree in three years, so they graduated the same time as students in the US. These guys at the Ranch are ages 18-22 and live there in dorms.
The second day I was there I went to the primary school and read to third graders. There were 101 students in one classroom! So I had a group of about 20. It was challenging but fun. We read with them everyday at 10:30 and 3:30. In between we go have lunch with the academy guys and find other work to do in the afternoon. We returned on Thursday evening for the wedding.
Two people who work for Cornerstone are getting married, Sarah and Phillip. Sarah invited me and three other americans to the traditional wedding which was yesterday, Saturday. We had to get traditional clothes made last week. We went up to Fort Portal where she is from on Friday and staying the night in a hotel in order to be at her house in time for the wedding since it was a four hour drive. We arrived at 12 and waited for the Phillip and his family and members of his tribe to arrive. It was beautifu. THey had two large white tents set up with flowers everwhere and chairs for everyone to sit in. Then there were two couches and facing eathother with a coffee table in between. So each tent is behind each couch so that when everyone is sitting, the two tribes are facing eachothers. They put us in the very front row because we were "special visitors" so we got to see everything. It was an all day event where Phillip and the men in his family sit on the couch and negociate the bride price with Sarah's father, grandfather, and brother. It wasn't in English but we followed alnog. About every 30 min Phillip's family and friends would go bring soda, sugar, salt, money, goats, and ultimately a cow. When the gifts were accepted and the negociating was over, there was a feast. THere were about 200 people there. At the closing ceremony they signed a certificate giving Sarah away to marry Phillip this coming Saturday in a church. I was an amazing experiece and a great way to understand the culture better. I was so honored to be there. I will post pictures when I get back.
So that was my weekend. I am doing laundry today and then heading back to the Ranch on Tuesday. Will return saturday for the wedding, then off to Mukono on Sunday to start my teaching placement!
I have been healthy since I got here so please continue to pray for that and safety when traveling. I am having a wonderful time and loving every minute here! Thanks for everthing!
Grace and Peace
Sunday, June 17, 2007
I am Here!
Hello all!!
I have arrived safely in Uganda. The country is beautiful and the people are amazing. I have just been in Kampala the past few days getting adjusted to the time difference. I have done some touristy things, but it is kind of weird not being able to share it with someone. I will be going to the ranch tomorrow which is where Cornerstone has its primary and secondary schools. I am so excited to be able to finally work with the kids! I have to run, but I will write when I return on Friday. Love you all and miss you! Thanks for all your prayers!
Grace and Peace,
Bets
I have arrived safely in Uganda. The country is beautiful and the people are amazing. I have just been in Kampala the past few days getting adjusted to the time difference. I have done some touristy things, but it is kind of weird not being able to share it with someone. I will be going to the ranch tomorrow which is where Cornerstone has its primary and secondary schools. I am so excited to be able to finally work with the kids! I have to run, but I will write when I return on Friday. Love you all and miss you! Thanks for all your prayers!
Grace and Peace,
Bets
Monday, June 11, 2007
Let the Journey Begin!
It is about 1 am here in Wisconson as I am preparing to fly out of Chicago tomorrow afternoon for Uganda. It seems like this day has taken forever and I can't believe it is finally here! I thought I would be scared and nervous, but at this point in time I am excited, and a little stressed. I just hope that traveling goes smooth and that I get from the airport in Uganda to where I am staying safely.
This past weekend I had the chance to meet a Ugandan family in Janesville and have dinner with them! Her name is Joy, and her husband's name is Gideon. They have three beautiful little boys. The whole family is absolutely amazing. She made me a traditional Ugandan meal and gave me some helpful hints to get by in the country. In addition to all this information she provided many contacts for me within Uganda to visit or incase I ever need anything. I will hopefully get the chance to travel to her home village and meet her family one weekend. She is also trying to start a Center for Positive Thinking in Kampala. There is a pastor there already working on it and I am going to try and visit him. That would be a great opportunity to get involved in later. It was just a blessing to meet all of them!
I will hopefully get a chance to write when I get there in a couple days! I should arrive Wednesday night. Thanks again for all your support!
Grace and Peace
This past weekend I had the chance to meet a Ugandan family in Janesville and have dinner with them! Her name is Joy, and her husband's name is Gideon. They have three beautiful little boys. The whole family is absolutely amazing. She made me a traditional Ugandan meal and gave me some helpful hints to get by in the country. In addition to all this information she provided many contacts for me within Uganda to visit or incase I ever need anything. I will hopefully get the chance to travel to her home village and meet her family one weekend. She is also trying to start a Center for Positive Thinking in Kampala. There is a pastor there already working on it and I am going to try and visit him. That would be a great opportunity to get involved in later. It was just a blessing to meet all of them!
I will hopefully get a chance to write when I get there in a couple days! I should arrive Wednesday night. Thanks again for all your support!
Grace and Peace
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Praises for Protection!
Hello All,
It has been a crazy couple days. As I was running around on Sunday getting last minute things for my trip I got in a bad car accident. A man ran a red light and I T-boned him going about 45 mph. I had my seatbelt on and the airbag went off. It was a miracle that everyone walked away from it! I just know God was watching out for me. Both cars are totalled.
We were suppose to leave yesterday for Wisconsin, but the car we were taking is now gone. Thus the trip was put off until tonight. We are getting a rental car to take. I will spend a couple days with my Grandparents in Wisconsin, and then fly out of Chicago next Tuesday. One week from today!
I am super nervous and excited. Everything seems to be coming together, even in these last few days. I found out that there will be a few American college girls working with Cornerstone when I am there. Hopefully they will be able to take me around a bit and help me get settled.
Thanks for all your support and prayers!
love,
bets
It has been a crazy couple days. As I was running around on Sunday getting last minute things for my trip I got in a bad car accident. A man ran a red light and I T-boned him going about 45 mph. I had my seatbelt on and the airbag went off. It was a miracle that everyone walked away from it! I just know God was watching out for me. Both cars are totalled.
We were suppose to leave yesterday for Wisconsin, but the car we were taking is now gone. Thus the trip was put off until tonight. We are getting a rental car to take. I will spend a couple days with my Grandparents in Wisconsin, and then fly out of Chicago next Tuesday. One week from today!
I am super nervous and excited. Everything seems to be coming together, even in these last few days. I found out that there will be a few American college girls working with Cornerstone when I am there. Hopefully they will be able to take me around a bit and help me get settled.
Thanks for all your support and prayers!
love,
bets
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