Eleanor Roosevelt said:  "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face...we must do that which we think we cannot."

What challenges do you face?  I have always thought that I cannot take a step without assessing the known risks and attempting to anticipate the unknown risks. But how do you anticipate risks as mundane as where will I live when you truly do not know where you will live when you get to.
place.

Surely, I am strong enough to handle what lies ahead...other humans have been strong enough to endure it, I am a human, therefore, I am strong enough. This slightly faulty logic has served me well in past allowing me to "fake it 'til I make." Ghana - here I come.

My challenge is to fearlessly undertake this opportunity to live in country that I have never even visited and confidently accept the fact that I cannot imagine what lies ahead. I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The countdown begins!!!