Everyone here is really good about birthdays. All of the USP students sang to me when I came in around 8a.m, the interns took me out to lunch, and a couple girls here bought me coffee candies & chocolate. Amanda waited in line for goodness knows how long for the shops to open so that she could surprise me with my favorite coffee candy :)
A few girls also made my cards & stuck them in my locker.
So it was a pretty good day. Lot’s of facebook messages wishing me a happy Ugandan birthday, that’s for sure! ALSO. A whole bunch of people wrote me letters for the book that Hayl, Cole, Meggie, & Gill put together…. Oh my. That was the best present ever. There were so many letters that I was reading it all day long! It was so encouraging & to be honest I don’t think I would have really enjoyed my birthday without it. Thanks everyone :)
My host family didn’t really celebrate the day… I’m not sure if they knew that it was my birthday. In any case, I don’t think birthdays are as big of a deal here as they are in America. They certainly don’t celebrate birth-weeks anyways! Haha.
So that was my day. It was all right & I definitely felt the love, even from across the ocean. I miss you guys! Blog you later!
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