Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Greetings Friends, online wanderers

Welcome to my brand new flashy (okay, it isn't THAT flashy) and hopefully soon-to-be educational blog site. For those of you who know me and why I am writing this, hello once again. For those who do not know me, most likely stumbled upon this blog because you share, at some level, a mutual interest that I possess with Africa. So let me catch everyone up to speed. While I have not yet departed, I am slated to leave for Burkina Faso, a relatively small land-locked country in Western Africa, on the 3rd of June. It is this place that I will call home for the next 27 months.

In any event, I will surely provide much more info as time nears and well after I depart. At this point, there are many questions even I have that have yet to be answered. I hope to provide you all with my thoughts, impressions, observations, and yes, possibly even my fears, as they come to me, or as often as I can find a computer (Western Africa hasn't the breadth of technological resources that other parts of the world enjoy).

With that, enjoy the blog, be sure to bookmark it, as I do not believe I have the option of notifying you all when and if I post a new journal entry.

allez, au revoir!

joel