fifteen days

my thoughts have been consumed by my africa trip. i have a pile of things in the corner of my room, ready to be packed, and i add little things to it periodically. i think i have about three different lists of things relating to the trip. the excitement and anticipation is almost unbearable at this point... i just want it to be here! fifteen more days, and it will be. it still hasn't fully sunk in, and i don't think it will until i'm on the plane.

i decided to bring my holga in addition to my digital camera. what better place than africa to take her for a testdrive again? incidentally, i found a roll of film already in the holga that i just mailed out for developing yesterday. i can't wait to see what's on it. i know there are pictures from senior year of college. the only one i can remember taking is of a cherry blossom tree above a bench on campus. do you remember that, drew? we went for a walk or something and i brought it with me. i hope the pictures turn out okay.

last night i flipped between "black in america 2" on cnn (with soleded o'brien) and this documentary called "ten days in africa" about a group of african americans who travel to ghana, senegal, and cote d'ivoire in the span of ten days. for some reason i've been really interested in race relations lately, particularly because of where i'll be finding myself in a few short weeks. i am interested to see what it feels like as a minority in a country for the first time. you can bet i'll be writing pages in my journal while i'm over there and typing them up when i come home.

i have this sense of a big change coming to me.