According to two of my friends, Laura and Brie I am supposed to marry an African Zulu Princess. Laura calls her an African Zulu Warrior Princess, which I don't understand because since when are Princesses also warriors? Most of the time they aren't Warriors.

While I have not a single feeling for an African woman I would always laugh when they would say who I was going to marry. It wasn't ever directed towards a specific person and that's where this story begins.

In August 2006 a group of friends and I went to Uganda Africa to visit friends and to hang out in Africa for the summer. It was an amazing experinece, I took hundreds of pictures and fell in love with Africa. One of my dreams is to build an orphanage and to help support orphaned kids. That was the main reason why I wanted to go and experience Africa back in 2006. Not knowing what I would do, how everything would fall into place or even if building and supporting orphaned kids in Africa would be in my future. I just knew that I wanted to go.

Ever since I was in elementary school I would tell my mom that I was going to go to Africa one day. I would do school projects on Africa whenever I had the chance and wanted to learn what I could about it. Going to Africa happened for me in 2006. While being home two of my friends would joke and say that I would eventually marry an African Zulu Warrior Princess.

Being in Africa is amazing and an experience of a lifetime. But for me it was a dream, a vision and I could Never marry an African. I am not attracted to them at all. Don't get me wrong, they are beautiful people.. but not for me. The children over there will melt your heart but for me to marry an African Zulu Princess, that just wasn't in the cards for me, not in this lifetime.

I love the children over there and due to the fact that there are now over 2.2 Million orphaned children in Uganda alone, that should be heart breaking. I don't think there is enough that we can do to make things better in Africa. There is so much work that needs to be done, but I am willing to do what it takes to raise children who will be the countries next leaders and workers. By raising children who come from families of nothing, who have no parents or family left, we can show that anything is possible and that they are a nation and a generation worth fighting for.

I didn't know what an African Zulu Princess was, so I did a little search on google to try to find out and what I learned was that An African Zulu Princess is worth a lot! A lot of cows that is!

According to this story a business man paid a Zulu King 120 cows which the King took into his Palace. It is custom for a man to bring a father a gift for his daughter but 120 cows was above and beyond what was needed. If this was in America and you wanted to marry an African Zulu Princess you would need to give the father like 20 BMW M5's just to win the father over! 120 cows in Africa is a ton of meat, and lively hood for an African. Many Africans have troubles just raising 1 cow, much less than 120.

I am going back to Africa in August 2009 for a month to build pig farms and get businesses going to help support the orphanages that we will be building and the orphans that we will be supporting in the near future. I was in Uganda Africa in September 2008 for two weeks and a friend of mine came up with the idea of raising pigs. We drove through the capital Kampala and looked at businesses there and tried to learn how they ran things in the capital. Most businesses where owned by Indians, from India. And where one business started, down the same road where many of the same stores. If a guy wanted to start a business selling paper products within months if not weeks every store on the same block would be selling the same things! I just don't get their logic! Talk about following the crowd, but I guess we have that here in America also. When the economy sucks everyone sells when you are supposed to be buying. Its the 'cattle' mentality to just follow the crowd, not knowing you are walking right into the slaughter house.

I began to think of the idea of raising many pigs and not just a few, but hundreds. In Uganda pig is as popular as McDonald's or Starbucks in the United States. Pig meat is like eating chicken in America. Most everyone in Uganda will eat pig, unless if they are Muslim.

So the journey begins with building two large pig farms, large enough to hold 150 pigs each. Each farm will also have a crop and be supplied by a maize mill that we will also be building in a nearby village. Pigs love to eat, so one of the obstacles is finding enough food to feed the pigs. A baby pig can be bought for about 25,000 shillings which is about $13 USD and sold for between 250,000-400,000 shillings depending on location and weight of the pig. (That is $131-$210 USD at the time of this writing. The exchange rate changes constantly in Uganda).

That is the story of what is in store with Africa and why I go. But will I find my African Zulu Princess in Africa this time? I don't think so unless if she is 100% white American who is over there at the same time I am. I'm no racist, I just like white girls. Having a girl who loves Africa as much or even more than I do would be awesome. I have many great friends but not many who I would marry, well actually there is only one that I would consider anything with. So my question would be, is this one girl my African Zulu Princess? Even though she is an American white girl, can I call her my African Zulu Princess or African Zulu Warrior Princess?

I guess only time will tell. One thing I have learned in life is that nothing ever goes how you may plan and that anything that you plan will always go differently than you expected. So I can expect something or plan something but do I actually expect it to work out the way I want? Probably not, but that is what makes life full of surprises, enjoyment and excitement. Life is more enjoyable because I am a believer that things can actually go better than planned... lol.. even though most of the time they haven't, but in the end things tend to workout and sometimes we see the entire picture and things have actually turned out 'better' than expected.

So hopefully I find my African Zulu Princess this time in Africa with me. Update to follow...

Today is June 4th, 2009 and its a nice sunny hot day! I guess its getting me ready for a hot summer in Africa when I leave in 67 days!! Still hoping to find my African Princess there too! Right now there are a lot of changes about to happen in life. A new car, (now that mine just got totalled from hitting a deer the other night! It happened so fast there was no way I could have avoided it), a new business is starting up, (Gotta love babies!) and now getting ready for, well hopefully a relationship with the coolest girl in the world.

If I could give just one life lesson I have learned, is that NOTHING ever goes as planned. So really I don't know whats going to happen, I don't know how I am going to meet my so called 'African Zulu Princess' and I don't even know if it will happen this year. I would love for it to happen but its all on God's timing.

One of the main reason's why I wrote this hubpage was because I know what it takes to rank high on the search engines, especially Google. And I wanted to be number one for the following terms on Google:

• African Zulu Princess
• African Zulu Warrior Princess
• African Princess

We are told that whatever Google tells us, it must be true, right? Well not all of the time. But if Google shows a picture of the girl I think is my 'African Zulu Princess' then it must be, right? Well not always. This entire hubpage has been half a joke and half fact. Its a joke because I wanted to rank for a picture that I am going to put on in the next few months, and it will rank on Google images in the top 10. Its to show my two friends Brie and Laura that Google has picked out my 'African Princess' but its not a joke because its someone I have liked for a while now. Its a girl who is not African at all, which is the main joke. She is completely white and I love it. She is an incredible friend, faithful friend, someone who is very thoughtful and kind, someone who cares even about the littlest things in life. She is out going yet chill and laid back, she is not too tall and not too short. She loves God and wants to make a difference in people's lives. She laughs a lot, smiles a lot and plays jokes on me a lot. She loves to scare me and yet is impossible to scare back. She likes to run and eat healthy. She can lead and be led. She can have curley hair or straight hair ;) and she makes me want to be a better person. She is not an African Princess but she is my Princess.

I could go on forever it seems but I will just continue to pray that God's will be done.

Pictures to come soon and another Update to follow...

Today marks 48 days until I leave for Africa, business has slowed down (alot I must say.. its just the economy which has to pick back up soon), I have been driving my new Lexus LS 430 and am loving it and its a nice sunny day!

I don't think I have ever been so excited to go to Africa as I am expecting so much to happen over there! My expectation level is so high right now and I know the trip will be a success. The youth group from the church I go to will be building an orphanage house in the two weeks they will be there and I will not only be helping them but also setting up (hopefully 2) pig farms to help support the creation and support for more orphanage villages.

I guess the most exciting part about this trip is that my best friend ;) Kandice will be there (Update 7/16/09, she actually is staying home to work for two months before she goes back to the leadership school she has been in this past year). She is in the picture above with me. We took a lot of pictures that night and most of them where random and I just liked that pic the best! I'll have many more pictures but I still have to get them from her.

Oh yeah, one last thing.. I posted that picture about so it should rank on google's image search for African Zulu Princess and African Zulu Warrior Princess within the next few days ;)

What can I say? Its three days before my best friend Kandice graduates from the leadership school she has been in this past year. I am excited and so is she! Its hard to believe its been a year, where does time go?! Its also 25 days until I leave for Africa!

In my previous update I talked about how things never go as planned and that you can plan for something to happen and it probably won't happen the way you want it to. Well how true is that! My best friend Kandice won't be going to Africa this summer, which is kinda hard but its all for a good cause. She needs to stay home to raise money to go through her second year at that leadership school which starts October 1st. I am definitely sad but also happy and support whatever she wants to do. I will be the first one to support her and encourage her through this time because its got to be hard on her. She was so excited to go to Africa and now things have changed. There is always next summer to go, so she is happy about that.

Kandice is my most loyal best friend in the world!! We call each other BFFL (Best Friend For Life) and I love it when she calls me her best friend. Some people would ask me why we are best friends and I have to believe its because God brought her into my life. This friendship was God ordained and I cannot really explain it other than that. She has been such an encouragement to me, she has been so faithful and loyal. We always talk through difficult times and understand each other. Our friendship has to be God centered because without a firm foundation our friendship is like 'a house built on sand'. I have really gotten to like this girl over the past year. Of course it was really hard because we were not allowed to 'date or court' for her time in the leadership school. And now that she is done.. here comes SELF Control. Everyone expects us to get into a relationship right away, but what they don't know is that its all up to my Lord on that one. Its not my timing but his and I think it will be soon, but not too soon. Just like I have said above many times, we can always plan for the best but most of the time it doesn't work out the way we wanted it to. I guess I will see what happens in the next few months.