Woo hoo! Okay so two of my three recommendations are on file with P.C. now. They've requested some additional paperwork regarding my students loans and credit card debt. It's a rush to be moving through the process... I can't wait until I get my first package from them with all sorts of goodies and red tape! Yay!
On the more personal side of things, I feel a bit surreal about this still. Am I truly ready to be on my own for 27 months? I think so. I predict that when I get over there, where ever "there" may end up being, I'll be acting very similar to how I acted the first time I went to Africa. I will be scared, I will feel out of place, I will feel completely discouraged by not knowing what my life for the next two years will look like. (This is because, while they give you your country assignment and your area where you'll be working (as in your topic, not the geographical area), for the first couple months you're there you have no idea where IN country you'll go. You find out a couple weeks before you actually go). Anyways, tangent aside, I know I'll bug out at first. I can count on my resolute and stubborn logic to get me out of that slump however.
One selfish reason I'm excited about this is that I hope the promise of the placement will motivate me to get in shape - if I go over there looking / feeling like I do now, I'm going to have a hard time hiking all day in the equatorial heat. Plus Africans will call me fat because it's not insulting in their culture! So I hope to be in better physical condition before I leave, and I know from previous experience that my physical condition only improves while I'm in Africa. Yay! I get my college body back! ( I HOPE!)
I've got the support of family and friends, though some seem to resent my leaving... I can't stay here to please others and continue to be in the slump that I've been in for the last year or so. Believe me, I'll be a better friend once I return and I don't feel like I have lately! So I'm excited. I'm scared. I'm hopeful, I'm worried. It's going to be fabulous.
Minute by minute updates will continue until my feet hit African earth - then you'll just have to wait it out :)
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hell yeah, i'm excited for you. i want to go someday, too!
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