Things I Love...

I have compiled a list of some of my favorite things/ experiences about life here in Africa. I hope you enjoy them :) On a quick side note...this is my last week here in Uganda! It is amazing how quickly a month has flown by here. I feel so blessed to have had the opportunity to return to this country and people I have fallen in love with. Thank you for following my journey back to Amani!

Things that I love/ experience about life here in Africa

• Boda Rides
• Finding geckos living in my shoes...I dont know who was more surprised...me or the gecko
• Next door neighbors attempting to DJ and creating a spontaneous backyard dance party for us
• Feeding and cuddling with babies
• Little girls running and wrapping their arms around my legs when I enter the cottage
• The fact that Mercy's smile and contagious laugh is the exact same as it was last summer
• Being called Auntie Brooke
• Hardworking, beautiful mamas
• Late night conversations with the volunteers
• Laughing with Mama Lucy
• Bible studies on Tuesday's
• Splashing around in the Nile with the boys
• Visiting villages
• Chapati runs in the morning
• Meeting Gastor at Canaan
• African spice tea and Rolex's
• Kids club on Saturday afternoons
• Taking kids to church
• Rolling paper beads and having picnics of passion fruit and Gnuts with Mama Lois and her kids
• Star gazing with the volunteers
• Seeing how big the kids have gotten in a year
• Putting the girls down for a nap
• Reading books at preschool
• Long walks around Jinja
• Speaking Lugandan to boda drivers and their surprised reaction that a muzungu (white person) is speaking their language
• Praying with the kids
• Hugs from Paul
• Hope's giggles
• Cuddling with Fiona
• Stories about the latest creatures Mary has discovered in her room
• Trekking in the mud at the market for produce
• Pitch Perfect movie night with the volunteers
• Taking pictures with the kids...both at Amani and the villages
• Playing with the kids from Budundo in a field filled with cows
• Taking videos of Mercy squealing and singing This Little Light of Mine
• And many more :)

Buying Chapati

Love these girls... We were taking a group picture with our elephant pants :)