I miss Frank.Thursday, May 6, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
You Have Stolen My Heart.
Today it's raining. Not warm Ugandan rain...cold Colorado rain.
I miss Ugandan rain.
I miss being called "Recco" because Rachel is just too hard to pronounce.
I miss red dirt.
I miss mosquito nets.
I miss looking at Lake Victoria everyday.
I miss Christine's stories of Gulu and how lucky she is that the rebels didn't take her.
I miss eating rice and beans. (even posho!)
I miss you Uganda.
You have stolen my heart.
I miss Ugandan rain.
I miss being called "Recco" because Rachel is just too hard to pronounce.
I miss red dirt.
I miss mosquito nets.
I miss looking at Lake Victoria everyday.
I miss Christine's stories of Gulu and how lucky she is that the rebels didn't take her.
I miss eating rice and beans. (even posho!)
I miss you Uganda.
You have stolen my heart.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
And It's Safe to Say There's A Bright Light Up Ahead
Well, it's been a little less than 2 weeks since I left my home on Plot 65, Magwa Crescent, Jinja, Uganda, East Africa. So how am I different? How have I changed? Well, other than thinking I'll get frostbite if I leave my house, having a craving for sauteed eggplant on pasta everyday (love you Em), and becoming depressed at my quickly fading equator tan...I'm still not really sure. I know there must have been some changes...but I just can't put my finger on any specifics. I know part of my heart will always be in Uganda. I want to go back...I've even gone as far as to think of when and with who. But I also know another part of me is here in the states. If I can help in Uganda, what's stopping me from helping here, in the US?
The one thing I do know is I have gained a renewed passion to actually be a help... to make a difference somehow...somewhere. I don't quite know if that help is a physical one or an emotional one or any specific type of "one." But what I do know is the God who created this entire universe also intimately created insignificant little old me with a desire to help the hurting people in this world.
Now please know I'm not demeaning myself by saying I'm insignificant but in all honesty this world would do quite fine without me. In the big scheme of things I play a small if not non-existent part. Also please understand I'm not putting myself on a pedestal because I believe God designed me to want to help people. God made us all exactly the way he wants us.
Psalm 139:13-14 says " For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made..." (oh that gives me goosebumps!) And God made me in a way that I want to dedicate my life to being dedicated to others. I'm just not quite sure how that looks yet.
Much love...Rachel Zebee <3
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Merry Christmas Dizzy!!!
We love you Dizzypants!Love Zeebs and Vivi
ps. please note the African statue hugging itself.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
1/2 Way Reflections
So I tend to not blog as much as I would like...I think because I only tend to write about things that seem important to me. But really the big picture is awesome but it's good to look at the small things sometimes...the activities that occur everyday and sometimes go unnoticed...so let me tell you about my Thursday, December 10, 2009.
Today I woke up oh like around 9ish. I made some delicious french press coffee and then took my journal and the book I'm reading called "A Long Way Home" outside to the porch. This morning was really cool. Like an Alaskan morning at camp when there is mist on the lake or a crisp Coloradan fall day...it was amazing. It was definitely the coldest it's been since being here in Uganda. Rachel went to Kampala today to pick up our newest staff member/housemate Marayah. woo hoo! So the boys were sleeping or at EPOH and Becca, Emily and I had roomate bonding time on the porch. It was great!
Becca and Alex went to the village around 10:30 as it's their 2nd to last day here and Emily and I went into town to run some errands (we almost fell off our boda on the way...he did a wheelie somehow) But our trip ended up being fruitless because we didn't find a package at the post office and the photo place had no power so we couldn't get our pics printed. Oh well. After we got to home we ate some lunch and went to Babu (a village near Walukuba) with Becca. So Babu. It's quite an interesting village. It's small and the 9 Suubi women who live there who love to gossip so they all knew we were coming! haha. Oh Uganda...
First we went to visit Agnes. Agnes is a big woman who doesn't speak much English but loves having visitors. She laughs and smiles all the time. I don't know if she ever stops! I think the most common phrase you hear with Agnes is "Sank (thank) you for visiting me!" So we chatted and laughed and then Agnes (who was very punctual today) took us to Gettu's house which is near hers.
Gettu wasn't home but her 19 year old daughter Jennifer was. Jennifer is in Suubi as well. Some more chatting and trying explaining that it's hard for 1 person to visit 91 women in 3 months and we were sorry we hadn't visited until now. She got over it pretty fast. Next we all "footed" over to Bosco's house.
Bosco is probably the smallest woman you will ever meet and you would never imagine her being able to birth a child...but she has 4. Her youngest, Kenneth, is only a few weeks old and he is absolutely adorable! We rolled beads for awhile and talked about the baby and why Becca was going back to America. Then Agnes, sticking to schedule, moved us onto Grace's house. (whirlwind visiting today!!!)
Grace also known as Mama Susan loves the rumors...so time at her house is always interesting. There wasn't too many today...just her trying to decieve us into believing that Agnes is pregnant. These Babu women sure can joke... We looked at "Good luck on your exam" cards given to her daughter...they were ridiculous. You know how when things are translated to English from like Japanese they kinda sound ridiculous...well that's how these cards were. One sang to us and talked about their 1 heart, 2 eyes, 5 litres of blood, 206 bones were all wishing her luck on her exams. haha. It was starting to getting later in the afternoon so we let Grace and Agnes know we had schedule to keep and that we really were excited to meet out new housemate and that Rachel should be home with her soon...so we went. We stopped by Edith's on the way out of Babu and just greeted her and continued on.
We tooks bodas home and ate yummy beans and rice and matoke that Betty made for us. We hung out waiting to meet Marayah while listening to Jason Mraz and looking at Alex's Sipi Falls pictures. And then Marayah came! Super great to finally meet her!
Now I'm in town at "Tin-ternet" with Becca. We all came to town and split up to do all our seperate things. And yeah! ...so that was my day...not too eventful or crazy or exciting but today it was the small things that mattered. The sitting on the porch with Emily and Becca. The joking with Babu ladies about marrying Agnes 8 year-old son Steven. The anticipation of meeting Marayah. And the knowledge that I am where God wants me right now. And instead of living in yesterday and looking for tomorrow I am here in my today....content. :)
Today I woke up oh like around 9ish. I made some delicious french press coffee and then took my journal and the book I'm reading called "A Long Way Home" outside to the porch. This morning was really cool. Like an Alaskan morning at camp when there is mist on the lake or a crisp Coloradan fall day...it was amazing. It was definitely the coldest it's been since being here in Uganda. Rachel went to Kampala today to pick up our newest staff member/housemate Marayah. woo hoo! So the boys were sleeping or at EPOH and Becca, Emily and I had roomate bonding time on the porch. It was great!
Becca and Alex went to the village around 10:30 as it's their 2nd to last day here and Emily and I went into town to run some errands (we almost fell off our boda on the way...he did a wheelie somehow) But our trip ended up being fruitless because we didn't find a package at the post office and the photo place had no power so we couldn't get our pics printed. Oh well. After we got to home we ate some lunch and went to Babu (a village near Walukuba) with Becca. So Babu. It's quite an interesting village. It's small and the 9 Suubi women who live there who love to gossip so they all knew we were coming! haha. Oh Uganda...
First we went to visit Agnes. Agnes is a big woman who doesn't speak much English but loves having visitors. She laughs and smiles all the time. I don't know if she ever stops! I think the most common phrase you hear with Agnes is "Sank (thank) you for visiting me!" So we chatted and laughed and then Agnes (who was very punctual today) took us to Gettu's house which is near hers.
Gettu wasn't home but her 19 year old daughter Jennifer was. Jennifer is in Suubi as well. Some more chatting and trying explaining that it's hard for 1 person to visit 91 women in 3 months and we were sorry we hadn't visited until now. She got over it pretty fast. Next we all "footed" over to Bosco's house.
Bosco is probably the smallest woman you will ever meet and you would never imagine her being able to birth a child...but she has 4. Her youngest, Kenneth, is only a few weeks old and he is absolutely adorable! We rolled beads for awhile and talked about the baby and why Becca was going back to America. Then Agnes, sticking to schedule, moved us onto Grace's house. (whirlwind visiting today!!!)
Grace also known as Mama Susan loves the rumors...so time at her house is always interesting. There wasn't too many today...just her trying to decieve us into believing that Agnes is pregnant. These Babu women sure can joke... We looked at "Good luck on your exam" cards given to her daughter...they were ridiculous. You know how when things are translated to English from like Japanese they kinda sound ridiculous...well that's how these cards were. One sang to us and talked about their 1 heart, 2 eyes, 5 litres of blood, 206 bones were all wishing her luck on her exams. haha. It was starting to getting later in the afternoon so we let Grace and Agnes know we had schedule to keep and that we really were excited to meet out new housemate and that Rachel should be home with her soon...so we went. We stopped by Edith's on the way out of Babu and just greeted her and continued on.
We tooks bodas home and ate yummy beans and rice and matoke that Betty made for us. We hung out waiting to meet Marayah while listening to Jason Mraz and looking at Alex's Sipi Falls pictures. And then Marayah came! Super great to finally meet her!
Now I'm in town at "Tin-ternet" with Becca. We all came to town and split up to do all our seperate things. And yeah! ...so that was my day...not too eventful or crazy or exciting but today it was the small things that mattered. The sitting on the porch with Emily and Becca. The joking with Babu ladies about marrying Agnes 8 year-old son Steven. The anticipation of meeting Marayah. And the knowledge that I am where God wants me right now. And instead of living in yesterday and looking for tomorrow I am here in my today....content. :)
Friday, November 20, 2009
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