I’ve felt so lucky to have even a thin connection to such a vastly different part of the world to see photos of Rae’s visit to Lira to see her nephew and niece, to hear Suzan’s perspective on poverty and politics, to read Phil’s musings on community building. Suzan met the older brother of my college roommate Rachel while he was studying abroad in Uganda as of this writing, Suzan and Phil are living in Lira, married, with two gorgeous children, running an amazing organization called Solidarity Uganda.īecause Rae was not only my college roommate but is also my Harry Potter mentor, BFF, and pen pal, I follow all her exploits and basically her family is my extended family. I’ve never been anywhere in the vast continent of Africa, but someday I would like to visit Uganda.Ī little bit of my heart and brain has been invested there ever since my senior year of college, when I first met a beautiful lady named Suzan who hails from Lira in Northern Uganda.
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