"Home is Wherever There is You..."

So I’m not gonna pull any punches here-- I am pretty excited about getting on a plane tomorrow morning! I miss Nathan like crazy and the second my eyes land on anything resembling vegetables said items will be quickly devoured. My flight leaves at 4am Saturday, so I am taking a private taxi to Dakar at 7pm today, which will leave a four hour wait sitting in the airport before my flight.

I am having weird feelings of nostalgia or something because I keep feeling waves of sadness about leaving. I look at all my stuff in the closet here and I don’t know where to start packing… I think in my head I know that I am leaving today so I can suddenly allow myself to be emotional about it all. I am also having recurring, vivid sensations of being in the airport in New York and eating a hamburger. Anyway, I should probably be on meds for hallucinations or something but I think that I am just really, really excited to get on that plane!

The other volunteers I have met have actually been really great people. We all have our own stories as to how we came to be here in Senegal but really at the core of it we all wanted to help contribute to the global community. I do genuinely feel kind of sad that I will likely never see any of them again, save for creeping them on Facebook, but, c’est la vie du voyageur! And my new roommate Soleine seems like a cool chick. It has been nice to practice French with her for the last few days, and share some insights with her on living with a massive Senegalese family.

Otherwise, I have truly enjoyed blogging about it all and sharing it with my people back home. I appreciate that I have had so many people thinking about me whilst I’ve been away, dropping me a line, and sending me photos and even an Oprah magazine in the mail. In Particular, I have to get mushy about Nathan in order to thank him immensely for all his love and support during my journey to Senegal and back again.

Thanks also to everyone who has followed along with the blog. It has been a pleasure to do some writing and I want to say genuinely, thanks for reading!

Anyhow, I think its safe to say that the Senegal chapter in my book is closed!

See you all soon,

Ashley