back in the united states

I suspect this will be my final post on this blog, although this certainly isn't the end of my Ghanaian experience. Every day since coming back to the United States, my experience in Ghana has affected me in some way. I am not a completely changed person, but I am certainly more willing to take risks, more willing to try new things, and more confident about how my own culture is defined in comparison to Ghanaian culture.

This experience has been unlike anything I ever could have gained from a classroom--rewarding, impossible, heartbreaking, indescribably valuable--and I'm so glad I stayed for two semesters.

For now, it's back to life in the United States. But, they always say "you never know what you have until it's gone"--and having been gone from the U.S. for nine months is certainly making me appreciate every moment here, now that I am back.