A New Year

So it has been a long time since I've actually written a real entry. Not that this is going to be, either. I'm going to bed. However, I do plan on keeping a journal when I'm in Senegal, and some of it might end up here.

People keep asking me if I'm excited, or nervous. I don't know. At this point I think my main emotion is anxiety--that I'm not spending enough time with my family, that I'm going to forget to pack something, that I won't be able to find something, etc. Some of that was alleviated by the fact that I finally found my camera charger, but only some.

Anyway, that's pretty much it: I'm probably going to be writing more soon. My mother and I are driving down to San Fransisco on Wednesday. We're planning to see Avatar again, this time in true 3-D IMAX. I'm flying out on Thursday morning, to Chicago then Paris. Then I have about a 6 hour layover in Charles de Gaul, then a 6 hour flight to Dakar. It's going to be fuuuunnn.