| Thursday, January 04, 2007 |
| I'm going where? Alone? |
4 Jan 2007
Happy New Year
Four days later....
The countdown has started. Two weeks from tonight I will be at Dove's Guest House in Johannesburg, South Africa. It will be my napping spot before my final flight to Windhoek, Namibia. From the pictures, it looks quaint enough and well worth the money, as compared to the exorbitant priced hotels adjacent to the airport. I've been busy here finally starting to figure out how to pack the things I know I want to take for others and deciding what to bring with that I will need. I know I brought too much with me last July so I hope to bring only the bare necessities this time. I am hoping Nan's house has a washing machine!
I have recently begun thinking about what I am doing and where I am going...and that I am going alone. I sometimes lie awake at night, or wake during the night wondering what it's all about. What is it that is driving me to make my second trip to Africa in six months? I know part of me is still there. How will this trip be different? Will I come home and think it was all worth it? What will I think, this time, when I come home? After my return in July, and in retrospect, there were things that I had hoped to do on a relational level with others that I didn't. I sometimes found myself too busy trying to do Internet and blog stuff. I want to go with a different perception this time, a different set of eyes and ears than when I was there in July. Yes, I've got Internet and computer things that I want to accomplish, but this time, I don't want that to be my focus. I want to really listen and understand where the people I will be interacting with are coming from. I want to put aside my biases or understanding of how my world is and step into theirs; if only as a spectator.
How can I help? What can I show them how to do? What can I teach them? What will they teach me? It is my hope and prayer that my time in Namibia is spent seeing and feeling life not through my eyes, but through the eyes of those around me. |
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