My dream!

This is ME!!! all excited to begin the new adventure!!!!

I tried to write a blog about the fact that i was going to uganda but i kept starting it and not being able to get longer than a sentence. I now understand why i couldn't talk about it. Because this beautiful incredible Africa has only been a dream to me for as long as i can remember. How do you talk about something that you feel is only a part of your dreams. Well, my dream has come true! I now live for the next 4 months in the most tropical, beautiful, simple, place on earth. And it is even better than any dream i could have possibly imagined!!!!! there are smells that i have never smelt before, there are precautions i would have never thought to take before and I am LOVING every minute of it. I have only met a few of the locals and they have been great! We have a night guard named David that lives in our compound, (ha i still live at the compound!) And he guards our house at night while we are sleeping, and guess what he guards our house with? a Bow and Arrow! He is really proud of his skills and has been working with Help for 5 years and a good source tells me i could trust him with my life! which i guess i technically do every night!  Im am SO excited for the next 4 months! stay tuned for the greatest adventures that i will hopefully help you to get a grasp of!!!!

This is the view from my back porch! i think the little house is where David sleeps

 Another view from the back porch which i sat on and read my scriptures and took in the best view!!!

 This is the toilet..... im so glad its a flushable toilet!

 Our beds with their mosquito nets on them, i sleep on the left bunk!

What do you do?

...when you are a million miles away and missing your family








and you find out that some idiot made your sister feel fat,











your nieces and nephews are growing up to be so big your afraid they aren't going to remember you,
















AND..... one of your best friends is getting married and leaving you?!












the way i see it i got two options:

CRY


or SCREAM!




i haven't decided which one yet.....

26!

so i figure its about a week or so since my birthday and so that means i should probably post about my b day again... i feel like i just wrote about my last b day, which is probably true because once a year is about the amount of times i get around to putting my thoughts on the interweb for all to read. :) so first quick recap on the bday, it was awesome! and ill tell you why, it only felt like my birthday for about 20 minutes when i was blowing out the candles... but other than that we did so many adventures and i was surrounded by all the people i love out here in hawaii. we woke up at 530 in the morning so that we could get the best wall to climb on kaena point. this was super super fun! there was only a small group of us at that time and it was so much fun! then we went and ate delicious food at Haleiwa eats! the we came home took a power nap, then we had a bbq at our house.. all of this was in memory of me getting older, which was a good way to celebrate cause it kept me from realizing that i am getting older, so instead of telling everyone about it i am just going to post pictures... most of them are on my birthday but some are just great memories... the beach ones are great memories... the others are celebrating my epic day of birth

The Bus

so Katrina is not in working order and i have a nanny job at turtle bay. which is only about a 10 minute drive away when you have a car. but considering Katrina can function i have to submit myself to The Bus. Now this is not a catastrophe in an of itself, because i am completely ok with public transportation, its always interesting and fun and you get to meet interesting people. and in different countries it is the only mode of transportation. so can anyone tell me why it is causing me so much ANXIETY!!!!! i live right next to the bus stop, my house is even named the Bus stop house. which is probably one of the reasons it causes me so much anxiety. because i have been home since 2. and i don't have to work till 7 but i could tell you that the bus came at 2:56, 3:30, and 4:35, and the last one just passes at 5:40. The buses are really inconsistent and so i am terrified that i wont get there on time so its almost 6 and i am going to head out to the bus stop ( which is across from my house) and wait with anxiety for the bus to come. and i will either be incredibly early for the nanny job. or late. i hope its the first one. and can someone tell me when i got so anxious about being on time? I'm usually completely ok with being late, and yet i am sitting here watching each bus go by waiting for the one that i need to take. where has my mind gone?



The little roof on the top right, is the bus stop.... i have been staring at it for way too long!!!!!

Rain.....

When it rains it pours, i wish it would just stop.

one life long dream accomplished

so you know when you talk to someone and you tell them that you have alway wanted to do something that it seems like everyone else has done before and they say, are you serious? ill have to take you some time and your like. ok! thats awesome! and then it NEVER happens? well for me its horseback riding. all my life i have told anyone and everyone, when appropriate, that i have never ridden a horse before and they all have the same expression. are you serious? i know someone/ or i own a ranch ill have to take you sometime. they are usually serious or have the greatest intention of doing it but here i am 25 years old and up until april 1st, 2011 i had NEVER ridden a horse. until Jerilynn Loose came along. she asked me to go with her yesterday and i was so giddy and distracted the entire day until we went. and can i tell you, it was the best thing in the entire world! i absolutely LOVED it! my horses name was Prince, and i don't know if i imagined it or what but he had the same quirks as me. he kept tripping and he always seems to veer to the right... sound like anyone that you know :) it was everything that i could have ever imagined!!! so i asked jeri to take a pic and i was so excited that she accidently had it on video so i have a video of me on my horse so you can see just how giddy i was. and to end it i will let you know, i hope and plan to do it alot more often i can't believe i survived this long without riding. never again.

Katrina , how great thou art!

katrina, the truck of my heart, i have had her for 2 weeks and we have already had many adventures. Her first trip was to kahuku grilll where we got the best burgers i think on the island. she has faithfully brought me to and from school usually on time, depending on when i leave the house. the greatest of the adventures is when i have the wonderful privilage of getting in and out of Katrina, cause you see, katrina's driver side door is a little rusted, ok i mean very rusted, she doesn't open. that doesn't mean she can't however, i fear that if i did the door would fall off and i would have to drive without a door.


so to be able to get into my beloved truck, i climb in the passenger side door. which works pretty good as long as im not in a dress. but never the less she is my greatest adventure that i am looking forward to having her bring me many many happy moments. and laughs and giggles.