{"id":1521,"date":"2020-11-03T18:41:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T23:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2026-08-02T20:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T01:09:00","slug":"tickets-in-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2020\/11\/03\/tickets-in-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Tickets in hand!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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I have a ticket!\u00a0 After months of “maybe I’ll be returning to Senegal in November,” I was finally able to buy a one-way ticket for later this month.\u00a0 We all know that even a plane ticket doesn’t mean things will actually happen, but now at least I have a date and more of a plan.\u00a0 And hopefully the city I’ll be living in, in Senegal, will have cooled off a bit by then.\u00a0 (I hear that it’s been nasty there – hot and humid – lately.)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

So what’s the plan for after I land?\u00a0 Well, quarantine for a bit.\u00a0 And mainly keep working on the same things I’ve been working on from the US, including linguistics and my thesis.\u00a0 Oh, and probably things like getting to know people at church if it opens up again.\u00a0 (Last I heard it still wasn’t open since covid.)\u00a0 And learning some Wolof, one of the main languages of that part of Senegal, so that I can communicate better with those around me than I can using just my French.\u00a0 I’ll also be getting to know neighbors and other missionaries, figuring out life there, etc.\u00a0 I’ve been there for meetings and trainings several times throughout the years, but it was early 2020 that I moved there for the first time.\u00a0 And after only 7 weeks I was gone.\u00a0 So here’s take two.\u00a0 Maybe I’ll last longer this time and not have to head back to the US due to covid restrictions again.\u00a0 And maybe this time I’ll stay long enough to start to learn my way around this new country?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Well, I think that’s all for now.\u00a0 I had better get going on that to-do list before I hop on a plane!<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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