Friends, family...thank you for your interest in what I am up to. What is that I am up to? Tomorrow I am boarding a plane and heading to Botswana, a landlocked country just north of South Africa, with 11 other students and one other staff person from the University of Guelph. The program, known as the Guelph Global Learner Program, is a partnership with the University of Guelph and the World University Services of Canada (WUSC - www.wusc.ca). We will be boarding at the University of Botswana in the capital city of Gaborone. The students have been split up into four different placements, each one related to work with the HIV/AIDS affected community. Mine is at the Holy Cross Hospice , working at the orphanage attached to the facility. That is really all the information I have at the moment...so I am assuming I will be doing some kind of work with children that have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS. My hope is that I will be able to love those kids with as much of me as I can. Even more so...I expect to learn how kids who have lost so much and have so little, build community with each other and share their love.
When the program ends at the end of May, I will be traveling around the country for two weeks with a few other Guelph students. We hope to see the miraculous Victoria Fall and the Okavango Delta, while avoiding hippos at all cost. Then in the middle of June, I will be taking a long trip over to Chennai in India to help my amazing friend, Alexa Gilker, with the work she has already begun with some beautiful children at an orphanage. Please take time to read about the people that I meet and PRAY for the relationships that are built. Your thoughts and prayers are so important for keeping up my energy and spirit. THank you.
If you find a couple of minutes, I would love it if you would keep in touch by leaving me comments on this blog. I would love to know what you are all up to. You can also fire me off an email if you have time.
Love to all.
