Weekly Blog #2 ~ Buying Tickets

  Hello everyone.

  I miss many of you. I know many of you miss me. And soon we will be together.

  We’ve bought tickets, so I pretty much know exactly when I’m going to see you all. Which is strange. It’s like another level of weirdness. Like, it was weird enough at first, because we had officially decided we were going home, but it’s even stranger now because I know the exact day I’m going to fly out from Joburg, how long I’m spending in Qatar, and then JFK and then Chicago and then home.

  La la la.

  I had someone ask me the other day what I consider home when I told her we had officially decided we’re coming ‘home’. I typed out a quick answer…’they’re both my homes, but I was talking about America.’ But I had wayyy more than that flying around in my head. I decided to spare her extreme emotional vomit on my part, and just went with what I typed out above.

  But I always come back to that old standby.


  Where is home?

  I can try all I can to forget about it, but it keeps coming up, whether it be a question someone asks me, like the one I mentioned earlier, or just in my own meditations.

  I’ve written a lot before about this topic, so I won’t delve too deeply, but it’s one of those times in my life right now that it’s pretty important. Four months. Four months. Four months.

  Four months until my life turns upside down…yet again.

  My culture, my surroundings, the people I interact with, the school I go to, etc., etc., etc., will be completely different as of March 2013.

  I have no idea if I’m ready, but, however surprising it may be, I’m very at peace.

  And I’m pretty freaking excited. J

  Excited to see you all; my friends, my family, to go to school, to go to church…

  I’m looking forward to the holidays, to some upcoming teams and visitors, and to just live out well the last few months we have here.

  I’m trying my best to live them to the fullest. To absorb and take in and cherish every moment where I get to hold a sweet Swazi baby, sit with a beautiful Gogo, play with my fantastic dogs, enjoy my gorgeous house, appreciate the amazing landscape and my surroundings and just this country in general.

  Because I know how very, very much I’m going to miss those things when I don’t have the privilege of doing them anymore.

  I have such a blessed life, and I often shake my head and giggle a little when I realize that I was blessed with it. It’s really astonishing that someone like me gets to do something like this.

  And it’s all because of the God that loves me as a daughter, because I am his daughter!

  So, for now I’ll keep loving and appreciating and cherishing this place.

  And soon, I’ll have the great privilege of seeing you all. J