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I have been invited on the most amazing trip anyone could possibly ask for.  I have a friend who is from Sierra Leone and he has been all over Africa in his life.  He is also an amazing musician and poet who studies comparative literature.  So this great guy has offered to help me with my first spiritual quest which will be a trip to the mother land of Africa.  We are going to try to see as much of the continent as possible and all that the individual countries have to offer.  He has been calling up a bunch of people he knows all over the continent to try and get us hooked up with both musicians and various experiences like medicine men and, at my request, safaris.  I have always been mesmerized by two things; animals and music.  So this trip will surely be the perfect trip for a person such as I.  We already have a couple of Tanzania safaris and a couple Botswana safaris set up through various channels.  I have actually been going online to set up some Kenya safaris as well which should be the last ones we will have time for since our trip will only last for three months.  This is going to be an amazing journey and all of it is being paid for by my college grants for experiential research.  I will film this entire trip and record as much music as possible.  In the late fall I will have compiled all of my research and will be asked to present the entire trip in some coherent form.  I want to try and mash it all together in to a video if it works out that way and then just dub the music recorded in to some transitional scenes.  I think that the project alone is going to be worth the trip because it is just an amazing idea in itself.  So we have about three days till the flight leaves and we will be landing in Sierra Leone in five days.  I hope everyone else out there makes the best of their summer, obviously I will have to try harder than others.  Just kidding.