Only five weeks or so until Christmas vacation. For the holiday, I'm taking off to Senegal with some friends of mine. Though it's not the safest country to travel to, it's the easiest destination from The Gambia to anywhere in West Africa.

A few short weeks after returning, I'll be going on another trek around Europe, this time, very-not-solo.

This idea is very new to me. Just speaking/thinking in terms of "us" and not "me." "We" and not "I." It's all very different, very hard to get used to.

But really, for the past year (or more), I've been writing about how I was tired of being a "me," I wanted to be part of an "us." And now I am... but it doesn't mean that I will easily be able to get into that mode.

I'm a bit scared. The Boy and I will be going from one extreme to the other... from spending NO time together to spending ALL the time together. It's going to be a challenge, I'm sure. The thing that keeps me confident is that we've known each other for so long. Since I was 16 or so... and we agree that if our personalities annoyed one another, they would have done so long ago.

A WE and not an I. Such a good idea.