[A Journey to Benin] The False Start

[Andrew Searles]

Did I cry? I woke up this morning after dreaming, not of the Peace Corps like I do normally, but of fun times with my friends. This whole morning has felt like a trip to my mom’s house. We got breakfast, went to the airport, and I got extra attention from the security checkpoint. So, now I’m sitting here, in the most normal position I know, a snot nose kid getting on the airplane, only this time it’s not to my mom’s house in safe Albuquerque where I have tons of family, but I’m going to Philadelphia. Which is only seems like a two-day layover compared to the journey to Africa that awaits me on Thursday. So, did I cry? No. That would have been normal. But I couldn’t cry for a plane trip to Philadelphia. Sure I wanted too, but to cry would have been to admit that two years is a lot longer then I originally thought. Well, I’m going to bed. Don’t wait up for me.

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Posted By Andrew Searles to A Journey to Benin at 7/17/2007 07:23:00 PM