Departure!

I'm leaving Seattle next week for Dakar after a summer at home with a photography job and my family. I'm really excited to go so that I can see a completely different part of the world and speak French and learn Wolof (or at least try to learn Wolof) and spend fall semester in a tropical climate instead of New England. Really, I just want to learn a lot and I am sure I will.

I finished up my rabies shots yesterday (yay immunizations!) and this weekend I'm going to stock up on a metric ton of sunscreen and bug spray. I've got my malaria prophylaxis and my plane ticket, and I feel like I'm ready to go, although I still have a lot of packing to do.

I also have a Senegalese visa.

So that's all really boring, but as soon as I'm in-country, there will be real things to write about.