Number 5 is alive
Emilie's got a boyfriend. Mathieu.
Kate leaves in 9 days.
I leave in 15.
I'm going to Ghana! It's really only starting to sink in. My school is a catholic missionary school where they still beat kids as punishment. But it's all girls. And my hostmother's a teacher there. (sound familiar?) But school is nothing. I'm going to be free of my parents learning an entirely different culture and (hopefully) language. A year in the tropics! with monkeys and good friut like mangoes and coconuts and parrots and fresh pinapple! And by the end of my year I hope to have hitch-hiked all over the country (it's only like the size of Oregon). I'll be living in a small town, but pretty close to two big cities.
I'm bringing my camera, but I have no idea if I'll be able to download my pics anywhere, so I may get a film camera too. But yes, I will return armed with 1000's of pictures! It is going to be so cool! Tropical oceans and rainforests to take pictures of. Mountains and cities. And many people. I think that I will see most of the country through the lens. Hmm... maybe I can steal my dad's old, but really nice film camera with the multiple lenses.
I have to do part of my college applications (the essay's...wooot woot!) from the country, without internet. But atleast when I come back I won't be a spoiled middle-class American anymore. And all the people I met at colleges gave me their email's and were like... I want to go to Ghana with you... but I have to work, so you have to tell me about it!!! Which is good, because these people are reading my applications.
Before I go, the mohawk must. I have to get my hair cut, but I'm not sure how I'm going to do it. I don't want to have to mess with it while I'm there, so I'm thinking I'll do as jonathan suggests and just crop it really short. But that is so Anna. So I don't know what to do. I wish it weren't so fucking straight, but then, everyone wishes for someone else's hair. So yeah, suggestions are appreciated. I'm thinking I'll bleach it too. Because it's really hott when it grows out a little bit and there's a shadow of darker hair.
So yes... I'm going to Africa!!!!! And who knows if I'll be coming back!
Kate leaves in 9 days.
I leave in 15.
I'm going to Ghana! It's really only starting to sink in. My school is a catholic missionary school where they still beat kids as punishment. But it's all girls. And my hostmother's a teacher there. (sound familiar?) But school is nothing. I'm going to be free of my parents learning an entirely different culture and (hopefully) language. A year in the tropics! with monkeys and good friut like mangoes and coconuts and parrots and fresh pinapple! And by the end of my year I hope to have hitch-hiked all over the country (it's only like the size of Oregon). I'll be living in a small town, but pretty close to two big cities.
I'm bringing my camera, but I have no idea if I'll be able to download my pics anywhere, so I may get a film camera too. But yes, I will return armed with 1000's of pictures! It is going to be so cool! Tropical oceans and rainforests to take pictures of. Mountains and cities. And many people. I think that I will see most of the country through the lens. Hmm... maybe I can steal my dad's old, but really nice film camera with the multiple lenses.
I have to do part of my college applications (the essay's...wooot woot!) from the country, without internet. But atleast when I come back I won't be a spoiled middle-class American anymore. And all the people I met at colleges gave me their email's and were like... I want to go to Ghana with you... but I have to work, so you have to tell me about it!!! Which is good, because these people are reading my applications.
Before I go, the mohawk must. I have to get my hair cut, but I'm not sure how I'm going to do it. I don't want to have to mess with it while I'm there, so I'm thinking I'll do as jonathan suggests and just crop it really short. But that is so Anna. So I don't know what to do. I wish it weren't so fucking straight, but then, everyone wishes for someone else's hair. So yeah, suggestions are appreciated. I'm thinking I'll bleach it too. Because it's really hott when it grows out a little bit and there's a shadow of darker hair.
So yes... I'm going to Africa!!!!! And who knows if I'll be coming back!