I haven’t posted in months. I’ve been too busy living. Ups and downs, ups and downs. I walked out of my high school for the very last time Tuesday afternoon. I graduate on June 29th. Last Friday I got attacked by a dog. Half my upper lip is really messed up and I need plastic surgery in August. No big deal though. My surgeons are super cute and I like going and flirting with them while they take care of me. I’ll post a picture after this. All I can really say is this is the happiest I have ever been. I leave in 17 days and I’m going to be gone for six weeks and I can’t wait for that - truly the first chapter of the rest of my life! I am detached and carefree. I’m happy, so happy, and I am surrounded by the greatest friends and family anyone could ask for. I’ve come a long way. I’m proud of myself. I just.. can’t even put this into words!
Invisible Children is a non-profit organization that concentrates on the war in Northern Uganda. This is no regular war, for more than 23 years, millions of people have been displaced, abducted, raped, maimed and killed by a rebel group called the Lord’s Resistance Army. A man named Joseph Kony leads the LRA and won’t sign the many peace agreements offered to him. Kony claims to be the next messiah and has about 700 adult followers and not all of them are believers. Since he has such a low number of willing followers, he abducts children from their homes in the night and forces them into being his soldiers. Leading them to a life of violence and turning them into monsters. Against their will, these children are forced to kill, torture, maim and hurt innocent people. The LRA does not take claim of these children, but they are there - invisible. Children that are free are scared to walk the streets in fear of being the next ones chosen. They sleep in large packs in abandoned buildings without much food or water and live on what’s barely available. Kony says he is fighting for the Acholi people in Northern Uganda, but he kills and hurts them too, so no one is really sure what he’s fighting for. On April 25, in 10 countries and 100 cities across the world - people are abducting themselves. Hundreds of thousands of people are walking to LRA camps (parks) and sleeping out in masses with the bear necessities and won’t leave until the media “rescues them.” The point of this is to spread awareness, the media neglects to inform us of the war in Uganda and of all these poor children, so we’re going to make them. Click on the picture to go to the rescue site to see if there’s going to be a rescue in your town and go to it! Get your friends, family, neighbors, coworkers to go too! We’re abducting ourselves to free Joseph Kony’s child soldiers!
I’m just going to keep reposting this until more people reblog, if you can reblog something that makes you laugh, reblog something that matters.
Going on tour with Invisible Children Roadie Internship in Spring 2010.
isay:
jambulanceRoom 16. I lost myself with you. I found myself with you.
My favorite place in the world. Nothing better than being there with you.
(via 6od)
I’m the same way. And it’s probably the reason any guy would be lucky to have us!
(via overflowing)
(via juhhhnet)