Eyes to See, Ears to Hear

I was lying in bed last night watching The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and noticed at one point how I again ‘slipped’ out of Africa.  When I realized what I was doing and in fact that I was really falling asleep at a Swahili language school somewhere deep in Africa, it almost seemed fake.  Our experiences are so out of the ordinary that I have to remind myself ever-so-often that I am indeed a missionary in Africa.  It is kinda surreal.