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		<title>remembering the good.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And so this New Year started with friends, the words &#8220;never again&#8221;, the affects of parasite killing, and the knowledge that I am happy. Filed under: In Africa, Life Tagged: Botsolano, New Years, South Africa<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sheilainafrica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8512207&amp;post=856&amp;subd=sheilainafrica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>on being women&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stuck on yet another long car ride full of what would be more lengthy traffic jams, the discussion about routes and timelines began. After giving input into the conversation and once again ignored: Shanley piped up, “does anyone want my opinion?” We had spent nearly two weeks in the centre of Uganda, learning about the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sheilainafrica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8512207&amp;post=848&amp;subd=sheilainafrica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>because of the beads</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had booked my tickets; I was heading to Uganda to meet Shanley of Nakate. It wasn’t until I mentioned at a party that I was going to meet up with someone I met online that I realized how ridiculous I sounded. I mean, meeting someone on Twitter, having idle chit chat and following one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sheilainafrica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8512207&amp;post=846&amp;subd=sheilainafrica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>now, how to stay&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when I thought life would be easy, when I was finally living out my purpose I learned the hard way: there are no certainties in life. I find myself without a job in a foreign country. I look around at my life that feels so full: a great community, a new flat that is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sheilainafrica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8512207&amp;post=835&amp;subd=sheilainafrica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got the greatest message from my sister, Karen. Mckenna, her second, was one year old when I left for Africa. But when I visited last month we made up for lost time by playing ponies, colouring, and painting our nails. Here is a note from Mckenna: To Auntie Sheila I love you so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sheilainafrica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8512207&amp;post=828&amp;subd=sheilainafrica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>finally, an update</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn’t get hit on once while I was back in Canada for a visit. Not once. And I realized that I had missed it. No, I didn’t miss my necessary constant bitchy demeanor I put on or the creepy come-ons that are so overtly sexual one doesn’t know whether to slap him or run. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sheilainafrica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8512207&amp;post=818&amp;subd=sheilainafrica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>on being a missionary</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m just two weeks shy of being in Botswana for a full two years, and I look back&#8230; I knew that being a missionary wouldn&#8217;t be easy. I was almost certain of it. For me &#8220;missionary&#8221; conjures up images of well, every cliché I can think of (non-trendy clothes and bad hair cuts spring to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sheilainafrica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8512207&amp;post=750&amp;subd=sheilainafrica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life, it&#8217;s like that</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So my official contract as a volunteer is almost over. And rather than return home to Canada, I am staying in Botswana. But I won&#8217;t be a missionary anymore. Rather, I am getting a job that involves development, and new opportunities. These last two years, I have changed and grown. I have been pushed to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sheilainafrica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8512207&amp;post=807&amp;subd=sheilainafrica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lofty thoughts on a Friday morning</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilainafrica.wordpress.com/?p=803</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a lot of dreams. Many of them are frivolous, lofty thoughts, but some are good solid future thinking dreams. My dreams can almost read &#8216;plans&#8217;. That&#8217;s how certain life can be for a twenty something, Canadian women. I was reading more on the Nakate Project, side note: if you haven&#8217;t already donated towards [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sheilainafrica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8512207&amp;post=803&amp;subd=sheilainafrica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>$1 empowers women</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Africa. It has a hold on me. There is so much need here, and yet so much opportunity for growth. You’ve heard me talk about the Nakate Project before, and have seen Shanley Knox’s blog. I love Shanley because she saw a huge need in a village in Uganda, and is now focused on empowering [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sheilainafrica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8512207&amp;post=797&amp;subd=sheilainafrica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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