go ahead and pinch me.

This morning I had a meeting with my program coordinator and the other participants.  In the meeting we just introduced ourselves, discussed upcoming deadlines, talked a bit about paperwork.  It was just small, seemingly unimportant things.  But these are the things that are making this more real.  We were told to start looking at plane tickets.  You know, for that trip I'm going on.  The one where I get to fly thousands of miles away to live in a land full of people I can't wait to meet.  I need to buy a plane ticket.  Because this is happening.  It really is happening.  I'm going to Ghana.