Spring Break Vision Trip

   School's out! for a week!  woohoo!  I have always loved spring break; such perfect timing!  The second semester of school is always long and busy, but spring break gives a needed respite.  It's not technically "spring" in Kenya....more like the end of summer.  For us, this is just a much needed break.
   Next week I am headed to Uganda!  Bundibugyo, Uganda to be exact.  This small, remote village/town is located on the western border of Uganda.  It will take me about 24 hours of bus, taxi, motorcycle taxi, and matatu hopping before I get there.  Thankfully, a friend is coming along so I won't have to travel alone!  So why am I headed to the middle of nowhere?
   I might move there next year.  Some friends of mine live and work as missionaries there with World Harvest Mission.  Their small American missionary team is in need a teacher for their little one-room-schoolhouse style school.  I have applied and am playing the waiting game to see if I get the position.
   If I do, I will be moving to Uganda in January (probably).  I will be teaching a few preschool and lower elementary children while helping with extracurricular activities such as discipleship, at Christ School.  This Ugandan Christian school was started by World Harvest Mission many years ago and remains one of the main missions of the team on the ground. 
   Please pray with me for this trip.  I am hoping that I will gain a better understanding of God's next step for my life.  I am beyond excited to visit my friends too!  Feel free to check out World Harvest Mission online!
World Harvest Mission
   As you are praying, please know that I am also persuing other avenues.  I am doing my best to be open to and proactive with many options.

THANK YOU!!!

7th grade "ems"s

In 7th grade World History we are learning about ancient Japan, including the religion of Shinto.  the students wrote down an "ema" which is a practice within Shinto of writing out your greatest wish.  Here's my students' greatest wishes:

-The the world be paeaceful; that people wouldn't have to go through troubles, worries, sufferings; that there would be no sin in the world and in our hearts.
-I wish to get to meet God and be with Him for eternity.
-Xbox 720 or a car or a F1 car
-I wish I could get over stage fright
-better grades
-good grades/straight A's
-That we could focus more on God than on our personal life during the day.
-To end world hunger
-get all A+'s
-I wish that everything could be fun everywhere I go!
-I wish I a Golf cart
-I would wish to go to heaven.
-My Ema would be for....World Peace! and more wishes
-Ema: To go back in time and see Jesus and become one of his disciple for I week and come back to the future
-I ema I would be succesfull in future
-For all my wishes come true
-I wish that most of the people in Earth would end up in heaven.
-To get perfect grades in school for a good future.
-I wish that I get a water park in my room.
-To finish school and Be a professor And be good at football.
-I wanna die and still be remembered for doing something great.  I wanna make something of myself that helped the world I wanns be someone taht everyone looks up to
-I wish I could make a difference in peoples lives, and a car
-If I could have one ema it would be to travel the world in first class.   :)