Thursday
Today was another great day. I spent the whole day walking around Pece with Grace and her daughter, Opoyo Rwat. The town is really beatiful. I met so many different Africans that I was just a speck of white in a sea of black.
Therefore I was amazed when I saw another white person there. Turns out that he was a man who worked with the Invisible Children. I was so grateful that I got to talk with him. He told me so many stories that I think a lot of people are completely oblivious to, like the fact that when the children are abducted, they are brainwashed by a man named Joseph Kony (who started this whole abducting of children). He takes one of the abducted children and kills them in front of the others and tells them that if they don't obey, the same will happen to them.
I really didn't want ot hear about this, but I knew that I had to if I wanted to know more about Grace and her past and the Invisible Children. But when he went into graphic detail, I had to tell him to stop. I could hardly watch the movie, but this; this was worse.
I had to try very hard not to cry so that I could have a good time with Grace. However, eventually I just had to let them flow out, and Grace comforted me as if she were my mother.
Today was another great day. I spent the whole day walking around Pece with Grace and her daughter, Opoyo Rwat. The town is really beatiful. I met so many different Africans that I was just a speck of white in a sea of black.
Therefore I was amazed when I saw another white person there. Turns out that he was a man who worked with the Invisible Children. I was so grateful that I got to talk with him. He told me so many stories that I think a lot of people are completely oblivious to, like the fact that when the children are abducted, they are brainwashed by a man named Joseph Kony (who started this whole abducting of children). He takes one of the abducted children and kills them in front of the others and tells them that if they don't obey, the same will happen to them.
I really didn't want ot hear about this, but I knew that I had to if I wanted to know more about Grace and her past and the Invisible Children. But when he went into graphic detail, I had to tell him to stop. I could hardly watch the movie, but this; this was worse.
I had to try very hard not to cry so that I could have a good time with Grace. However, eventually I just had to let them flow out, and Grace comforted me as if she were my mother.
Friday
When I woke up today, I smelled the odd scent of fish. Turns out that it was just Grace, cooking up some fish soup. While we were eating it, she told me that the recipe came from Algeria. Of course, I had absolutely no idea where Algeria was, so she told me that it is in Northern Africa.
After the soup, we went out into the streets, looking for people who I could talk to. There were so many people that I didn't know where to start. So Grace took me to the important people of the town: priests, shopkeepers, restaurant owners, people of that sort. I talked to so many people that I didn't know who was who.
One of my favorite "interviews" was with a woman shopkeeper who said that she had started her business from scratch. Her mother had died from aids, and her father died when she was only 12. Since then, she has had no one to help her, and had to make her business so that she could survive.
Now, the woman, Femi (meaning "Love Me"), has a very successful business that wouldn't have happened if she wasn't left alone. I now realize that some things in life that seem very bad lead to something that's good. That's what happened to Femi.
When we were finished talking to just about everyone in Grace's town we both went back to Grace's house to eat. Once we had a full stomach, we talked about the day. Eventually, we ended up singing, I have no idea how. I knew that when I finally fall asleep, I'll have a smile on my face.
After the soup, we went out into the streets, looking for people who I could talk to. There were so many people that I didn't know where to start. So Grace took me to the important people of the town: priests, shopkeepers, restaurant owners, people of that sort. I talked to so many people that I didn't know who was who.
One of my favorite "interviews" was with a woman shopkeeper who said that she had started her business from scratch. Her mother had died from aids, and her father died when she was only 12. Since then, she has had no one to help her, and had to make her business so that she could survive.
Now, the woman, Femi (meaning "Love Me"), has a very successful business that wouldn't have happened if she wasn't left alone. I now realize that some things in life that seem very bad lead to something that's good. That's what happened to Femi.
When we were finished talking to just about everyone in Grace's town we both went back to Grace's house to eat. Once we had a full stomach, we talked about the day. Eventually, we ended up singing, I have no idea how. I knew that when I finally fall asleep, I'll have a smile on my face.
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