Trying to get Home to Africa

Davisha Johnson Start Date: Jul 21, 2023 - End Date: Aug 4, 2023
  • Cultural Exchange
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Vacation/Personal Trip

My Travel Story

by: Davisha Johnson Start Date: Jul 21, 2023 - End Date: Aug 4, 2023
  • Cultural Exchange
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Vacation/Personal Trip
Honestly this is probably the wrong platform but I'm just tired. I moved to Africa with my 3 kids in 2021 and brought them back for the summer last year not knowing my mom had terminal cancer. She was apparently sick for 3 years and never told anyone, allowed me to move to Africa (Ghana) from Atlanta, Georgia with her grandchildren not knowing if we would ever see her again. In heinsight she probably wanted them to sepnd the summer becuase she knew it would be their last summer together. I found out 3 weeks before she died that she was sick while I was in Africa. I caught a flight here and didn't make it in time. My kids were still here from the pervious summer and attended school in the states while I was working in Africa so they got to spend almost a year with her before the end.

Now that the funeral is over and she had no life insurance, my sister trying to claim my children on her taxes has delayed my income tax check that would pay for our flights to get back to Ghana. I'm living in the same house my mother died in and sitting on the same couch because we don't live in America anymore so we have nowehere else to go. The kids finished school 2 months ago and I filed my taxes in February and its now almost August and I'm stuck here in America.

I'm just tired and I want to go home with my kids to Ghana. Between the airline tickets, the visa on arrival (I couldn't renew our residency permits becuase we have been in the states), my rent for the year that is now due in Ghana and the debt I have amassed borrowing money for the last minute flight to get here and the funeral expenses I'm just over it and I need some help. 

My 17 year old I had to get him living arrangements to stay in America for his senior year of highschool so he wouldn't resent me for having to go back to Africa so I'm also going back with one less child, to go back and grieve my mother finally after trying to keep my sanity in this place that I moved away from 2 years ago because I just knew Africa was were I could get my peace of mind and have a better chance at success as a black women than in America. 

Now, I just want to go home....