coming together

things are finally starting to come together on this africa trip (four days before i leave). a is expecting me to stay in her house (yay! house!). she's going to ask b if he's going to kigali this weekend so maybe he can drive me back to kibuye right away (yay! kibuye!).

it looks like i'm really going back to africa. unbelievable.

this whole trip is a bit disconcerting because it is so disconnected from what i'm doing right now, this minute, which is continuing to get ready for one last exam. new york and kibuye seem so far apart that it's impossible to imagine that they inhabit the same planet. i can't believe that a few planes and car ride will take me from one to the other. we should still be required to take ships. that would give us so much more time to figure out where we are going and to be ready for it. (then again, who would be able to go for just a summer if it took weeks to get to africa?)