so it's been a while...

I haven't written a post in this blog since April.. and in my last post I was writing about how I was going back to Uganda. Well that kind of got crushed and for a long time I felt bitter about it and I think I temporarily gave up on the idea which is why I stopped writing. I felt like I had nothing else to give to this blog. And since then many things have happened. I was a bit of an emotional wreck for a while, I got a new job (in retail), I decided to go back to school and pretty much killed myself working two jobs and taking four courses - which I just finished. School was hellish at times but also wonderful at times. I would say I enjoyed it overall and I learned a lot. It was a challenge and I felt like giving up (or hurting someone) at some points but what a better way to learn that to be totally uncomfortable, right? Now I can look back and say yep, I did that and I did pretty well. School really sparked a passion in me again and now I've got some more stable goals and plans for my future - a sense of direction.

In terms of Africa, some pretty important things happened around that, too. Carli Travers, who I lived with while I was in Uganda, came to Canada for a visit/fundraising mission. Though I could have spent every day with her and didn't get to see her as much as I would have liked, I did get to see her a few times and that was enough to get me back on track. Seeing her again really reminded me why I have to go back to Uganda. She has so much going on at her new location and there are so many opportunities for me to do something there. I made a promise to myself that I would go back, and now that I have some educational goals, my plan is to make that happen some time before September, before I get really committed and serious about school. The other thing that happened is that I made a connection with a new friend from class who is one of the students from The Uganda Project who will be travelling to Uganda this coming April. That has gotten me back into thinking about Africa, supporting the fundraising efforts, and even speaking at another fundraiser which I hadn't done in a while. I think I'll always be connected to Uganda and the project and pushed in that direction until I make the trip back there.

So now the new plan is: work work work, save, go to Africa, come home and get back in the game of school. I'm leaving my apartment that I really haven't been able to comfortably afford since the day I moved in to live in my friend's storage closet of her studio suite (literally). Don't quite know how that's gonna work yet...but she's a pretty rad person and I like her, and I feel like I've lived in worse situations before. It's all part of making sacrifices..and maybe I ought to make more of those.