Transcript of the video interview:

"I'm going to Africa. I'm going to Ghana in February for spring. I've always wanted to go to Africa, ever since I can remember. I'll be there for three months.

"We're studying African Diaspora, and doing an intensive language course. The last six weeks, we're doing independent studies projects--and I basically go on my own for six weeks, and just think about a subject that I want to do and work on that, study it, make it a project, do a paper, interviews, whatever I choose to do with that.

"I was thinking about doing something with education, like how the schooling system is out there. How that works, everything like that. But, I've been talking to my advisor about it, and we're just shifting through ideas.

"I don't think I'll really be set until I actually get there and experience--and then when it comes down to it, when I really have to make my decision what I'm going to do my project about then.

"My mom is excited. She has never been anywhere either, and she's just so excited that I'm going anywhere, and especially to Africa--like, she tells all her friends. 

"We've been raising money already, and doing a lot of fundraising and stuff like that, so she's really excited. I think she's the most open about it. My family is excited too, but they're more scared, and like, 'Why can't you go anywhere else? You know, it's so dangerous!'

"But that's why I want to go, you know. It's still a place where people live, there are families there with kids. They go to school, things like that. And so, I want to go and experience it for myself."