12 hours from now...

A bus will pull into Azusa Pacific University, I will load my suitcase and dufflebag and a new chapter in my life will begin. Around 2:30 AM tonight/tomorrow/Thursday, I'll begin my 21 hour journey to OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa. From LAX, we'll fly straight to Washington DC, and load up on South African Airways flight bound for Johannesburg. We'll make one stop in Dakar, Senegal before finally, 21 hours later, I'll take my first step onto South African soil. This afternoon is all about packing, checking my packing, unpacking and repacking, so that hopefully, by 2:30 tonight I'll have my black dufflebag and brown Costco suitcase full of everything I'll need for my 4 month stay, a 9 hour time difference ahead of my home here in the good ole USA. While I'm sure i hasn't hit me completely yet, I cannot tell you how excited I am to begin this new chapter. This will be an adventure that will undoubtedly shape me at my deepest level, and form me into the man I will be for the rest of my life.