Wednesday, September 2, 2009

July 12, 2009

(a selection from my personal journal - my final day in Africa)

Here we are 1 year later. It's take off day. My hours remaining in Africa are numbered. I'm going home. Yet surprisingly enough, I'm rather ambivalent towards it all. It's as if I'm just spending the day shopping for socks. I don't know if my emotions are such because I find it all so natural or surreal. I think on my final flight home - the Chicago to Cincinnati stretch - I'll be peering out the window my thoughts calm enough, yet trying to capture the essence, the grandness, the something... in touching down on Ohio ground a year gone by. A year that has transformed me in ways that I have yet to discover. The journey is far from over.