You can't go to Africa without going on a Safari!

I am working in the office right now, and probably should not be blogging. It is 7:37 in the morning and I could not be happier to be awake right now! Who knew that I could ever enjoy waking up at 5:00 AM, and smile about it?

I leave for Uganda in four days! I am so excited. I go to get my shots today. Well, actually shot because I am only getting yellow fever. Luckily, because I went to China last summer I don't need anything else! That worked out quite nicely. I just want to send a thank you out to everyone who has been pitching in to help send me to Uganda. All of this would not be possible without you, and none of it would be possible without the most amazing God in the entire world, and his desire to seek after me, even when I want to run the opposite direction! haha

My teammates leave to traverse across the country one week from today. They will be driving to Tennessee starting next week, and I will meet up with them on the 17th of September. They are picking me up from the airport and literally driving with me to a screening at a University that night. It is going to be so awesome...I will be fresh off the 24 1/2 hour flight/travel time, wearing dirty smelly clothes from Africa and depending on the availablilty of showers...without a shower! It is going to be so amazing!

Please keep me and your team in your rayers and thoughts! There will be four of us traveling in a van for 2 1/2 months, and we will need all the patience and grace that we can muster. Oh, and of course keep all of us going to Africa in your prayers as well. There will be 13 roadies traveling there together, and our week is filled with events. As far as I know we are going to visit a displacement camp, spend a day in the life of a mentor, spend a day in the life of a student, visit our sister school (mine is Lacor, and we are raising money to build a girls dormatory), maybe go bungie jumping over the Nile or rafting down the Nile...and going on a Safari...you can't go to Africa without going on a Safair! :) I can't wait to be there, I have no idea wht to expect, but I can expect that it is going to be amazing!

I miss you all!

-Christa