end of the semester?!?

Though I still have just under a month left on this side of the Atlantic, I know that it's gonna fly! It's even stranger, because I am going to be done with classes (and thus with my college career!) as of next week Wednesday! (or Friday...depends on when I finish the final paper, but I'm shooting to be done BEFORE Thanksgiving! So what will the last 3 weeks here contain? So much fun! We are doing some traveling before we are done here. We have two more trips with our group - one to Kumasi and a final trip to the Akrofi-Christaller Institute, the bible college in Ghana that we've visited twice already. That's always a fun trip because the people there are amazing and the accommodations are fabulous! In between these trips we have just over a week of free travel. I am going with 3 other girls, Elisabeth Risch, Katie Sytsema, and Steph Lasota, to Togo! We are going to stay with a pastor-friend of the family of Elisabeth's family in the capital of Togo, Lome, for a few days. We will also spend some time on the beach perfecting our tans before we return home and some time hiking and seeing beautiful things like butterflies and waterfalls. All in all, it will be a great end to a fabulous trip! Suffice to say, internet access may be lacking from here on out... at least after next week... so I'm not sure when more updates will come. I love you all, and if you're in GR I hope to see you December 19 or around New Years, and if you're in Chicago, I hope to see you December 22, and if you're some where else, then get to a place I can see you, oK?