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Full Circle - 365

Today marks a full year since I came (in) to America and my! has it been an interesting year. I have done things I never imagined I would do, been places I never imagined I would go, met people I never imagined I would meet. I have laughed till my ribs ached, cried like a baby, been so afraid I trembled, felt so confident I could take on the world, been so excited I've made a fool of my self, embarrassed ...name it I have been through it all. When I was leaving UG for some weird reason I thought I would come back and find things the way I left them. I thought my friends would still be as close, I would get back to work and continue from where I left off, you know, kind of thinking that everything would stand still till I got back. But no, life happens, people move on. Heck, so much has happened in my life I'm not exactly the same person as when I left UG, don't know why I would think other things wouldn't change. Yeah, I have tried to keep my relationships going but it&

The Dallas TV Series

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Anyone remember "Dallas", the TV series that was a hit back in the day? I don't quite remember what it was about because I was still very young back then but since every one watched it I wasn't going to miss out. All I remember about "Dallas" was the theme song, horses, and a guy called J.R who was always wearing a cowboy hat. This past weekend Sam took me to Southfork Ranch where the series was shot, that was quite exciting. The part I liked the most was walking into the house that it was filmed in and having the theme song playing in the background. On TV everything about the ranch looked huge but man!, all camera tricks, the place was ordinary to say the least. The swimming pool that looked like it stretched as far as the eye could see, hmm! like I said ordinary. We just have to give it up for camera tricks. It was a special moment for me, obviously I took pictures like crazy but you have got to understand. All I ever knew about Dallas before coming here

A typical day

So, it's been about six weeks since we came to Dallas and we are halfway through Sam's summer internship, amazing how time flies. I was a little concerned about what life would be like in this city especially when I hardly know anybody and Sam is away 3/4's of the week. It's not been too bad, actually it's been good so far, I think I like the way things have turned out, kinda like a retreat. Still haven't made any friends (what did I expect? find a bosom buddy in a week?) , but there are people to talk to as one goes a long, a "hi" over here and "how are you doing" over there and "is that your son" kind of thing. My day starts between 7 am and 7:30 am depending on when Mich comes bumping into my room to ask me "why are you sleeping mummy?", well other times he just lies next to me and waits for me to open my eyes. Then we have breakfast, for some reason he will not take his morning bath before drinking his milk, but again

Dallas World Aquarium

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On Saturday, Sam, Mich and I visited the DWA - Dallas World Aquarium, dwazoo . The place was buzzing with children and adults of all ages, you hardly had space to freely turn around. Our first stop was the water fall, there were lots of people gathered there, there was lots of trees, a nice recreation of the jungle but really not that fascinating. So I ask Sam, what exactly is everybody looking at? because really this I could have seen back home in Makerere Kivulu or even Namaanve. He laughed and shrugged his shoulders, then he said, ' look the ducks', and I'm thinking yeah right! all the money we had spent just to see ... Then as we walked on we saw one of Mich's favourite animals the Sloth, I thought, now that is cool. The animal has amazing eyes, you would think it had thick eye pencil, what some ladies would give to have that..., anyway. Uh! no, those are not skirts that were dropped in the water, they are called fresh-water stingrays. Is God awesome or what?

The Potter's House

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Today we decided to visit the church pastored by tdjakes It was a wonderful service not to mention the fact that we spend a total of 5 hours getting there, attending the service and getting back home. We looked up the directions on the net last night and realised we could actually get there without too much hustle. The train would take us all the way to Westmoreland and then there would be a bus that picked people up from the station and took them straight to church. Getting to Westmoreland was pretty easy, we rode the train to the very last stop, when the bus came we jumped on. Then we realised that the driver seemed to be moving in circles and taking all sort of routes, at one point he even passed the turn off to church but everybody seemed at ease so I figured there was something to it. I later realised that the bus driver had to go a round these areas just in case he found some people who were going to church too, that took us like 40 minutes. When we got to the church, it was flo