I've got the ticket!

So its been like forever since Ive written on here, a combination of busyness and lack of good internet access. The last month has been so much fun! Ive had the chance to:

• Go to a 5 day training with 2 friends with Mission: Moving Mountains (MMM, the Ugandan organization Im interning with next)
• Hang out with family, especially my 2 sisters that both came home for a few days; super cool!
• Share my Nicaraguan experiences/thoughts on poverty with lots of church and college groups
• Visit good friends in Manhattan
• Chill with my cool cousins in the Newton area
• See other friends I've missed, including my high school buddies
• Check out Purdue and K-State, my top grad school options, which included lots of meetings with professors
• Build a strip-tiller (well it was mostly my dad, I just helped)
• Camp-outs, fires, shooting skeets, lots of coffee, a rodeo, fishing, helping out on the farm, all things Im sure I'll miss

As I look forward to Uganda I feel really blessed. There are so many people that God has placed in my life that have invested in me, are an encouragement, and are really cool, and part of me wishes I was home for the summer to hang out (just being honest!) But I also feel that He's really blessed me with another opportunity to live and learn alongside some amazing "movers" in development if you will.

I'll be living with Sam Soita and his family, the director of MMM in Uganda. To get a better idea of what I'll be working with, check out the MMM website, or the Millinium Villages website, which both have a very similar model of development. More to come when I finally see it for myself!!! Flight leaves in -39 hours!