REGGIE BUSH PUTS HIS RELATIONSHIP BEFORE HIS $$$$$….

Reggie Bush skipped out on the ESPY’s to follow Kim Kardashian to Africa. On twitter I read from that Adrienne chic that Kim was going to the motherland. Don’t ask me why I felt a certain way of her saying Kim is in the Motherland. But I digress…

It is not a secret that Reggie has been focusing more on Kim Kardashian than his career. At least he had a great experience while in Africa.

Check out what Reggie had to say about it:

It is life changing to be in the Motherland with my mom, as well as Kim and Khloe, and Ray Crockett, on behalf of the Diamond Empowerment Fund (DEF). They’re about empowerment through education in Africa’s diamond producing countries. It’s been such an incredible week – I don’t even know where to start. We’ve seen the highest highs and the lowest lows. Everywhere we’ve gone we’ve been sung to by our hosts as a way of sharing and welcoming us. Getting here from home in LA was no joke. 25+ hours in the air by the time we made it to our first stop, a children’s rehabilitation center outside Gaborone, Botswana. We were met by the country’s former President Festus Mogae and the people from DeBeers in Botswana for a tour and visit with the kids. From there, we drove 2 hours each way to the community of Jwaneng, where Botswana’s biggest diamond mine is located. We visited a school where all the kids of the mine workers go where a kid asked me what it’s like playing against Chad Johnson. I didn’t think these kids in a village in Africa would know American football, nevermind playing against Ocho Cinco.

From there, we returned to South Africa where we had some drama at the airport when Kim couldn’t make it into the country because her passport was left on the plane. After all of us cleared and Kim was still stuck on the other side, we talked them into letting me back out where the planes were parked. By some miracle I found it.

Yesterday was packed from beginning to end with the following stops: 1) center for children from birth to 9 years old with HIV, 2) children’s feeding program in Soweto where we got to do the distribution of the morning meal of bread with peanut butter and a glass of milk and tossed footballs with some of the boys. The grannies who run and care for the children sang and danced for us and my mom was overwhelmed with tears by how beautiful the moment was. We all were. 3) lunch with the head of De Beers South Africa. 4) visit to CIDA City Campus, a free college that DEF supports. 5) visit to Maharshi Institute, a business college that uses meditation and is a favorite of DEF’s founder Russell Simmons. 6) visit with 3 students from the African Leadership Academy who were mad smart and will one day be in charge. 7) Dinner hosted by Lee-Anne Summers and Andrew Farr in a penthouse where the suprise guests were a pair of lion cubs, no joke.

Today we are catching our breath and getting ready to do a safari. Africa is nothing what I expected but much more. The people are incredible, the cities have everything we’ve got, but there’s also huge needs to get all these kids the resources they deserve for a better life. That’s why I am going to get to work helping DEF’s Athletes for Africa program. We can do this.

This sounds like an amazing trip Reggie but get your priorities in order. In a minute Kim is going to be making more than you…and let’s see what happens then.

Check out the pictures seen on Global Grind and Kim K’s blog:

Kim blogs also:

The Diamond Empowerment Fund has brought us to Botswana to show us how the diamond industry has changed the life of the Botswana people. I used to assume after watching the movie Blood Diamonds that diamonds were not acceptable to buy from Africa. However, it is the complete opposite! When diamonds are purchased, the whole country can survive! In Botswana there used to be 10 schools but the diamond industry has now funded 300 schools!

We went into the largest diamond mine! It was huge! The trucks they use to carry the diamonds are 6 million dollars, and each tire is $70,000! How crazy is that?! Look at how small we look in comparison to the tire! We saw all the raw diamonds and the process they have to go through in order to get them ready to be delivered to stores! Thank you DeBeers for that amazing experience!

Thoughts?

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Sidenote: it kills me that Reggie Bush is always hurt during the season but manages to party and go on 25 hour flights to Africa with Kim.

We want to see what he was paid to do…

As much as I love the way he looks…he character is shady from the college years to this shit.