More and more, things are becoming real but I still have not come to terms with the fact that I am actually going to be in Ghana in less than a week, taking Malaria medication every day, purifying my water, applying bug spray excessively and endlessly. It still has not sunk in yet- even though my bags are packed and I head to Ottawa tomorrow for training.
But as I enjoy my last warm showers, clean toilets, fast food and delicious home cooked meals, clean running water whenever I want it, and all the other luxuries I have, I realize just how lucky I am. How lucky that I won the geographic lottery to be born in Canada. How no matter how intelligent, hard working and passionate a girl might be, if I was born in a country like Ghana it is highly unlikely I would be anything like the person I am today. It's highly unlikely that I would even graduate from primary school, let alone be attending University with seemingly endless opportunities. As I soak up the last of our comforts and the familiarities of the life I have always lived in Canada, it is both exciting and frightening to think of how I will adjust to life in Ghana. It will be liberating to live a life so completely different, learn a new culture, language, and way of being that is neither better nor worse than ours but simply different.
I can't wait. . .
Friday, June 20, 2008
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