As most of you know I'm back. It is so weird to have non concrete floors or walls, or pizza with sauce. Also all the white people. Its so different here, all the food, wealthiness, the really different personalities between Africans and Americans. I'm just going to talk about those three things: food, wealthiness, and personalities. 

Food: SO MUCH FOOD!!! There is places to eat almost everywhere I look! Oh and its like all fried! ugh. It gets nasty after a while though.

Wealthiness: People wear name brand clothes and eat steaks and expensive food. It drives me crazy (not that i don't like a good steak.) People spend a lot of money on FOOD and clothes. I shop at target. It drives me nuts that people spend hundreds of dollars on clothes. I mean I'm not saying i would not enjoy that , but people are dying, they are starving, and we spend money like nobodies' business! 

Personalities: Africans are nice. They ask how you are when you are just walking down the road. In america people get mugged just by walking down the road. What does this tell you? It tells me that america needs an attitude adjustment. These things i don't get, when your hungry and have no money (in america) your rude and snobby. In Africa people are nicer. 

This is not about everyone but a lot of people.

-Lu

Africa or America?

I am in such a weird place right now, I can't decide to be happy or sad about leaving. I love Africa an would choose it over America any day, but I love my family so much. It has been the best 6 months ever. If only African houses had a,c and my family lived here. Sigh. And what are we going to do about all the processed food?! In Africa there is caterpillars in your cabbage, and I speak from experience. I think America can and should change America is just a difficult country. I mean is it really truly necessary to give chickens steroids because I thought steroids were illegal?  And why are we the ONLY country that calls fresh fries?! In Africa life is simple. I can't believe I'm going back.


-Lu

Living in Africa helps you realize how
powerless you are. How you are only this person, this sinner who would be nothing without God. I feel so powerless because there are 2 MILLION orphans and my family can't adopt all of them, we can't feed every starving kid, we can't help recover every drug addict. Only God can. It always comes back to God. Always. I don't understand God, because how could you love EVERYONE all the same? Not love someone more or someone less? Who can forgive no matter what is done? Only God can. Say that with me only God can. I think about what life would be like without God, but there would be nothing, nothing at all. If God hadn't made Adam or didn't do anything else, this place we are right now, wouldn't be here. Wow. God is powerful and we are weak. I am usually kind of independent. I don't like help. I'd rather bake, read, or do most everything by myself, but I NEED God. Right now I'm working on only giving God the glory and asking God for what I want (I've never been good at asking).


-Lu

Jinja Fun

Jinja fun

So I've been to jinja before, but this time I'm went with my family. So we hired a car and charged our electronics and hit the road. The drive to Jinja is about and hour and a half. The drive is amazing. There are acres and acres of tea plants and rice it's just amazing. Once we got into Jinja we went to bujagali falls and there we could put our feet in the water. It is just amazing to see what God can do. So after that we went to a restaurant and had afra-nachos. 
They were really good. (I have pics but afra-internet is super slow)
 Next we went to the source of the Nile but didn't actually go in (it was super expensive). Soon enough we ate some lunch and met up with Mrs. Tania, she came here after she sold everything she had. Hmm sounds like someone I know. Haha. She and my parents talked for a while then we sat at an Internet cafe and drank a soda and then some of Mrs. Tania's friends just so happen to be around and they said hi and guess who one of them was? Katie Davis. (She writes a blog) When I saw her I was like "Can that be Katie Davis?!" in my head, After kinda dyeing in side at the sight of her. Mrs. Tania asked if we heard of her, and I was like YES! But it came out as Uh Uh. And  she asked if I wanted a picture! A picture! I almost started crying tears of joys katie says "oh I have that shirt!" and then we took a picture. That was just like the best moment in my Africa experience. So anyways we started to go home and it was kinda horrible. All the smog and stuff. But anyways we got home and I had such an amazing day.

-Lu