Well here goes the first blog. To explain who I am and why I'm going to Africa, I must start with what was happening exactly a year ago. I was in Kenya with AIM and my wonderful team. Although I would love to re-write my entire journal so you could hear everything that happened...I just read what I wrote towards the end of the trip, " Tonight I got to share how I was feeling about my future and what I felt like God was calling me to, which, by the way, I feel like I'm supposed to be coming back to teach. Maybe not specifically Kenya but somewhere in Africa. My heart is definitely in Africa."  Well there you have it. That brings us to now. I have spent this past year looking for a program that would allow me to teach in Africa for a year. I found and contacted numerous organizations thinking that they would be "the one". It was a series of doors opening and doors closing. Back and forth. Towards the very end of the year, right before I graduated, I had finally decided that I would go to Africa with Africa Revolution and spend 11 months working in South Africa at a school that I would find once we arrived. Key words: I decided.  I graduated and came home and really started to worry that Africa Revolution wasn't going to work out. I hadn't heard anything definite and it was a new organization that still had a lot of things to figure out. It was during this time that God put AIM on my heart. I knew of the FYM program but had decided that it wasn't what I was looking for. Key words: I was looking for.  Once I saw that applications were still being accepted, I knew that God was prompting me to apply for FYM. So I did. Two days later I received an email from the Africa Revolution director saying that they weren't going to be able to take a team of interns this year because they needed to get things in order first. The email left me with a feeling of delight and an overwhelming feeling of praise to a God who was looking out for me. He opened the door and let me go first before He closed the other door right behind me. I was at peace knowing that AIM and FYM were God's decision and not mine. Key words: God's decision. No, it's not what I thought I would be doing but it's for sure what I'm supposed to be doing. It reminds me of Isaiah 55:9 that says, "As the heavens are higher than earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." Thank goodness my life isn't up to me. It's up to the Creator of the Universe. He has me going to Africa, it's better than I could have planned.