T-5 Hours

T-5 hours to take off.

Visa, check! Passport, check! Flight ticket, check! Money, check! Packing, check!

I'm both thrilled over the moon and scared shitless for the 10-day trip I'm about to embark on my own. Butterflies, millions of them, in my stomach but they are floating gracefully in a garden in full bloom of the most amazingly beautiful flowers.

I'm going to Rwanda!

Wish me luck!

Overheard #20

"Anti-orientalism!"

My flat-mate, L was going off again bitching endlessly and furiously about Western media bias against the East, more specifically, against China. Yet, BBC and CNN are the channels he watches religiously.

Today I learnt a new word.