Everyone is sprinting out of tow today and it's been kind of fun helping everyone pack and get moving. I don't know how many people out there are staying behind and just riding out there break in town, but I know it's only a small number of us. I am of course not part of that population as I have some much needed traveling to do starting tomorrow. While everyone else is going home or going off to some warm winter vacation somewhere, I will be making a nice hot trip to Africa for a missionary trip.
This is the first year I will be going on one of these things without any of my family around to support me. It should be pretty fun once I get there but for this week it has been relatively hectic trying to get myself and my life ready for such a big jump. I have actually never thought about how much my parents used to take care of without even including me. Now I see that there is so much more preparation required than I had ever thought about. This week alone I have to get some temporary medical insurance for the time that I am over there. Typically Missionary health insurance is totally inclusive because you never know what could happen and you are in a completely different world so you have to be sure you can get help if you really do need it. Of course I will be completely safe and nothing will happen, but you can never be completely sure.
It's still pretty far off in my mid right now though so I am trying to just make sure my life here is in order too. I mean I still have to sift through car insurance quotes so that when I get back I ca still get around. It's weird to get older because you run in to situations like this where I have to think about life beyond my vacations. My parents always used to say that life gets faster as you get older and I can totally vouch for that now.