Less than a week until I leave. On the 24th of September I will finally be boarding the plane that I have been waiting for since December 2005. Everybody asks me if I am nervous. Of course I am. But it’s the same mix of excitement and anticipation that I felt 4 years ago when I left for college. My excitement far outweighs any apprehension I might feel. These past two years I have done all I can to prepare myself for the adventure that lies in front of me. I am as ready as I can possibly be, minus the packing.
This past week I learned exactly what my living arrangements will be. I will be sharing an apartment with another American, Jeremy, at the Bible school in Niamey. I will have my own bedroom and bathroom and will be sharing a kitchen with Jeremy. I will have electricity, running water, and access to internet at the Teague home. This is better than I expected to have, and sooner than I thought I would be living in the Bible school, so I’m pretty excited about it. This living arrangement will definitely be more conducive to my French language skills.
There are things that I do not look forward to leaving. Most of those things are not things, but people. I hope to connect with as many of those people as possible over the next 6 days. But, inspired by Turner, I have come up with a “bucket list” of things I want to do before I leave. It’s pretty short with nothing too drastic, but here it is:
Drink at least one 7-11 Slurpee every day
Play 2 rounds of Frisbee Golf
Call as many of my cell phone friends as possible (goal: 40)
Finish “The Fate of Africa” by Martin Meredith
Eat a Giovanni’s Stromboli
Go to the movies one last time
Run my old 10 mile loop
Have a River City Diner milkshake
Salvage my struggling fantasy football team
But, more important than this list of things I want to accomplish, I just want to enjoy the last remaining days with my friends and family. My last Saturday of college football (please beat UAB, Gamecocks), my last Sunday of English speaking church, and my last meal with my family (even Benjamin is making the voyage home from Tech), these are the things I look forward to most.
Anyway, that is all for now. Hopefully I will have another about a week after I land.
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3 comments:
We're excited that you're coming!
3 things...
1) i think its awesome that you're going to drink a slurpee from 7-11 everyday
2) the gamecocks are actually playing wofford this saturday
and
3)i'm going to miss you, BUT i'm so flippin excited for you i can hardly contain it!
--callie
I am so excited about your blog! And I love that one of your bucket list items is to drink a 7-11 slurpee every day! Drink an extra one for me because they don't have them here in Cairo!
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