Hi friends!!  What time is it?  Update tiiime!
 

A.  If you need a translation, “E Day” = 5 days!!  Five.  Five days.  Five days footlooong.  (Ha!!)

 
It hasn’t really hit me that we are leaving this Saturday, and I’m hoping it hits me soon.  In less than a week I will be in Guatemala – which is only the first let of our eleven leg journey.  That’s three more legs than an octopus… quite a lot of legs.  And quite freaky to imagine.

 

2.  At this point I don’t really know what I am.  I suppose that if I were a recipe, I would be:

 2 parts excitement

1 part nervousness 

1 part scaredy-cat

I would also be super delicious, but that’s not the point.

 

D.  The past couple weeks have been filled with goodbyes and getting myself ready for the next 11 months.  I have never been good at goodbyes, and I am also REALLY bad at packing.  So needless to say I haven’t really been thriving during the past couple weeks! 

Please take a look at the current state of my room:  (Sorry mom!)
 


And this photo is from one of my hardest goodbyes yet.  These are four of my best friends from McDaniel – probably four of the coolest people could will ever meet.

 

 

I keep reminding myself that on the other side of each goodbye there is a hello.  So, goodbyes to all my friends and family leads to hellos to TEAM NEON and I-SQUAD, and I can’t wait to see you guys!! 

 

PERIOD.
 
Haha – name that mooovie.  You get a point if you do.

  
And a happy, happy, happy birthday to my big brother 🙂
  

 
 

And, just because this is a schmorgasborg-blog (a schmorgasBLOG if you will), I would like to share with you some other pictures that I have taken with my new digital camera!!  It was my present to myself from the government.  And I am having copious amounts of fun with it.