Peaceful Pathway☮

SHADE GRANT POSTED ON THE PEACE CORPS WEBSITE!!! This news is so unbelievably exciting! The hard work I've been putting into the past 9 months have finally paid off with a legit posting on the United States Peace Corps website! Please, if you have even a dollar to donate to this project, the children in Gobojango would be so grateful. Just click the link above, and donate on the page if you are able.  Really and truly each penny counts From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU! (^-^)

It’s so easy to get swept up into the murkiness of cloudy days.   At first they’re comfy and enticing…but after a number of cloudy, rainy days in a row where one is stuck under the same roof, it’s easy to get swallowed into the unhappiness of the moment.   Enough. I was forced outside of the house today and made myself tend to the garden.   In reality, Lorato was really the one who gave me the extra push out. She came with her sister to check on me and make sure everything was okay.   Begrudgingly I answered the door and walked with them outside.   Be it the sunshine or the company, I felt a swarm of positive energy overwhelm me and I forgot the reason why I’ve felt so upset recently.   We spent time admiring the garden and chit chatting about nothing in particular.   Recently, the amount of butterflies in Gobojango has increased to unimaginable amounts.   The best part is that they love to flutter around the cornstalks and watermelon vines and surprise me as I’m wal

“Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown” This whole journey has been an exploration from the cosseted, comfortable life I used to know to the overwhelmingly daunting indefinite.   I know this may seem pretty obvious, but when small situations happen back home, and I realize that they mean more to me than they should, then I remember the fear and nerves I should be feeling by living so far away.   Everyone is okay, thank goodness, I have just had to re-evaluate what I know to be sure from my solid foundation of home. Fact #1 : my family is uprooting yet again to an unknown house in a few months.   Fact #2 : the person I used to love, care for, and share every part of myself with has found someone else to fill the empty spaces in my absence Fact #3 : life goes on back home.   Whether I’m there or not (and whether I like it or not) Fact #4 : I really have no reason to be upset about it, (and this drives me cra

Another year has flown by, and now, writing you from the cozy air-conditioned room in the Gobojango Health Post, I am happy to say that I am extremely satisfied with where my life is right now. I had the great opportunity to go home for the holidays.   Let me tell you, there really is no place like home for the holidays…it was exactly what I needed and satiated some of my cravings.   The most unfortunate part about arriving home is the actual travel to get there… I started my journey the Thursday before my flight was to depart.   Since I had a doctor’s appointment that day, I figured I would remain in the capital for a few days until I had to head south to catch a flight.   Though this may sound appealing, the couch surfing situation and homelessness aspect of it wasn’t as appealing as I originally thought.   I felt like such a mooch!   (Although, I’m not going to lie, it was pretty enjoyable when I stayed with volunteers who were house-sitting for embassy work