For those of you who don't know, i will be STUDYING ABROAD in UGANDA this fall. I am leaving August 19 and staying over there until December 12 (12/12/12 - isn't that cool?) - a whole four months in AFRICA! I will have the chance to do an internship with an orphanage over there and also be taking classes like religion, justice, social work and Swahili! :) along with that, two weeks out of the semester i will be doing a rural homestay with a family that lives over there and get to experience what life outside of my dorm room is like. Also, we will travel to Rwanda, where the genocide happened and i am pretty sure i will get to do traveling within Uganda while i'm over there. It will be an awesome experience and definitely one that i will never forget! and i would love it if i had a support team back home praying for me and keeping up with what i'm doing - and that's what this blog is for. I'll try my best to update it with cool pictures or things that blow my mind that God is doing over there in me and others. Because i don't just view this opportunity as going to school over there, i am really expecting and praying that God uses me in the places i am at to even spread something as small as a smile to the people over there. and im sure that i will be forever changed by the people i meet and places i go! so thanks, in advance, for all the support. you guys are awesome! :D

here's a link of the program i'll be in - they are called BESTSEMESTER. =  http://www.bestsemester.com/usp/