i'm going home (-ish)!

i need a holiday. i deserve a holiday! i am going on holiday! i head to namibia bright and early tomorrow for a two week trip. it should be fantastic. i lived there for 3.5 years, and its been nearly four since i left. i don't plan to do anything except sit under a tree and eat lots of goat. yummy!

i don't know what to expect. i know that things in namibia change so rapidly - a function of both development and disease. that sounds odd, and is difficult to explain. but true. and i know that i have changed so much, the product of the challenges of grad school, the joys and strains of relationships, the newness of life in malawi. i wonder what i will be like there, how i will be received. i anticipate nothing short of a wonderful, moving experience - i just have no expectation of what that is!

i would say that i will be more out of touch than usual, but feel like i have been out of touch anyways. so, as usual, i will be out touch. but hope to come back with a fun update of adventures from my home away from home.