my new phrase i say constantly is TIA...this is Africa! life is still going good!! my sweeeeeet brother Rob and my awesome dad and my loving grandparents gave me a call the other day and made my day here soooo much better!! (hows that for a shoutout bro?) ha. but anyways, back to TIA...one thing i have been forced to learn to accept is that here, things can change at any moment and you always expect the unexpected...we went to work with Act4Africa on monday and it was much different than we thought...they do awesome work and use very very neat ways of spreading their messages, but we went to a landing dock on the lake and so nobody could understand english...therefore we were used as entertainment..and that was about it...we kinda felt like a sideshow..they used us to attrack people...we had to dance around to music we didnt know for like a straight hour..with no relief..it was fun at first...but then we just felt stupid and when we tried talking to people..noone could understand us, so they just looked at us...so that was hard! but...yesterday we went to kampala and met up with AFC, the group i traveled with the last time, and ended up staying the night in kampala and hanging out with them...it was a lot of fun to get to hangout and watch the inaugaration with more Americans..which was really neat. this friday though, we are going to an Obama concert at the local casino here in Jinja..and i think giving AFC a tour of Jinja on Saturday and then Sunday going rafting and bungie jumping! =) tomorrow and friday we will be working with Act4Africa agian..so i am hopping things will get better with that..becasue i really like what they do!! i found out that i will be teaching geography and european history to the older kids at the school...another TIA thing..i am very nervous about teaching such older kids...almost my age..preparing them for universities...its a lot for me to think about..i just want to do good..but things work themselves out!! anyways...i love you all and will write more the next chance i get!! peace and much looooove!! i miss everyone!!
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KELLI!! i love you and miss you so so so much! i dont know much about politics at the moment BUT erik told me that when obama got inagurated he was in jail and all the african-americans thought they were going to automatically get pardoned so all night long they were partying in their cells... i thought it was funny and maybe yall would too! i bet everything is so crazy over there and i can NOT believe you get to go BUNGEE JUMPING!! ahhhhh-- have yall moved into the orphanage for good yet or are yall still camped up at someone's home? oh and guess who i see EVERY day? casey punturo! he's in a class every single day of the week with me and i recognized his name and the first thing i told him was that YOU were in uganda! he says Hello!! i miss you so very berry much kellbell- now that i know you have a phone i will try and call you when i'm around alot of people and after we can figure how much it'll cost! ok well... ah i love you and miss you and yall stay positive!! :)
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