Final (but not really) lesson: Confidence.

I've always thought I was fairly confident person. If I know what I'm doing anyway. In Africa, everything was new. I never knew what I was doing at all. Confidence is one thing I had to learn fast. Or at least learn how to fake it until I knew it.

You have to walk around like you know where you are and what you're doing. Act like you own the place. You can't let anyone around you see the least bit of fear at all or you risk making yourself a target of some kind.

Confidence is something that takes practice. The longer you practice, or just pretend you have it, it will eventually come naturally. You won't even have to think twice when you're in a new situation; you'll just be able to think, "Yeah, I'm okay."

Besides having confidence in yourself, you need to have even more in God. No matter what you're doing or who you're with or where you are, he's going to be with you. Like I said on Monday, you just have to trust him.

Now I'm off to America! Prayers for safety are appreciated!!