Strange Connections

Hello Once again,

I wasn't sure if Two posts in one day was quite enough, so I thought I would go for one more ;)

Anyways, I thought I would share with you a strange connection that I found out about recently that will maybe help make the world a bit larger and smaller all at the same time...

Anyways, last semester I came to find out that there was a girl who stayed at host-home I am staying at who was from Iowa. I asked my family the name and they said Nicole. That was really no one I could think of that I knew from home, but I asked them last name, and they got out of a piece of paper that they had that said her name was "Nicole Craig" ..... still no connection in my mind.

However, last week, Phil, one of the interns here at USP gave me a letter for my family that Nicole had sent for them and asked me to deliver it. In a passing glance at the envelope I noticed that her address was Blue Grass, IA and a light-bulb went on in my head. Last semester, for spring break I went on a serve project with a girl from Dordt named Leah Wolthuizen who had a fiance' Joe Van Walbeek. Joe, I recalled, she had said, was from Blue Grass, IA. So, in my furious effort to make this connection, I emailed Joe and asked him if he knew who Nicole Craig was.... Quite awesomely, not only did he know who she was, Nicole's brother, had actually been part of Joe and Leah's wedding, as they have recently gotten married. I thought this was the coolest thing and told my host family about it, and they thought it was pretty neat too.

I just never thought that I would go to Uganda and end up making such an interesting connection back to Iowa, and even Dordt College.... go figure ;)

Justin