West Africa Baby!

After an amazingly long and seemingly excruciating wait, I got my country assignment yesterday. Or rather my mom did in PA and called me at work fighting back her tears to tell me the good news.

I am off to The Gambia, which to be honest I had to consult with a map to find out exactly where it is located. It is the smallest country in Africa so I don't feel to bad that I didn't know its exact coordinates. I did know West Africa though.

Wow, West Africa. I knew I could be sent anywhere in Africa but I never really thought I would be sent to West Africa for some reason. It was definitely the region that I was most unsure about just because I had never been there and didn't know a whole lot about it. I guess that just makes it even more exciting that I get to discover a truly new place. I am also glad that I got West Africa, because I wouldn't have chosen it so it will force me outside of my comfort zone, which is exactly what this whole experience is supposed to be about. I think I was pulling for Southern or East Africa because it was safe (I realize that may sound asinine to some of you), I knew what to expect to a degree.

At the onset of the application process I resigned myself to accepting the first assignment that I got and trusting that it was where God wanted me to be. Guess my case just proves the old saying....be careful what you wish/ask/pray for, it just may come true.

I have had a lot of trouble sleeping lately, my brain has been on overdrive thinking up all the possible places I could be calling home for two years. I thought that would stop once I found out, wrong....now its just even more real and cause for even more dreaming.