Crushing and Uplifting

So this morning I talked to Collins about not having anything for him to do. I think the conversation was harder on me than on him. Was talking to my dad on line afterwards, his comment was "I guess they get used to disappointment.which is so sad."



This afternoon, Evaline from Lalogi showed up for the workshop which starts tomorrow morning to prepare the team going on the advocacy trip to Kampala, not knowing why she was there. So I was explaining that we were doing this workshop to prepare people for the trip to Kampala when i realized she didn't know we had selected her (there were about 60 youth who wanted to go and we could only pick 12 and she was one of them). Turns out she has never been to Kampala before and now she is going as a spokesperson for her peers to be treated like a minor celebrity, carryout a press conference, have speaking engagements, meet with parliamentarians and religious leaders and be a tourist! The look on her face was priceless.
Pretty much it made the pain of working with this annoying youth network in Kampala to make the trip happen all worth it