I got home yesterday from spending the past little while at a cottage near Kincardine, on Lake Huron. It was absolutely gorgeous. Every morning we woke up to the waves rushing towards the shore and every evening we saw "one of the top 10 sunsets in the world," according to National Geographic. Now I'm getting ready to leave for Ghana. I feel excited to be there, happy to be with such a great group of people, very happy to be missing the winter, sad to be leaving people back home, nervous to pack, scared to be gone for six months, to get sick, and because I have no idea what's going to happen with the next bit of my life. I'm sitting in the comfort of my home, thinking about how I'll miss it here, but
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