Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Sunday, May 13, 2007
wowzer.
I thought I would have a lot of time to update once I finished with exams and moved home. Boy was I wrong!
Semester recap: my dorm room is haunted; I'm not going to Ireland; I don't like Arthurian literature; I made a 4.0; I have awesome friends. That about covers it.
I got home Tuesday thinking I could kind of relax, prepare myself for the trip, read a good book, watch some junk tv, etc. and then immediately realized I had four days to unpack all of my stuff and re-pack it depending on whether I was taking it to Africa, camp, Columbia (that's right--I already packed for the fall semester), or staying here. Not to mention the fact that Smith is moving into an apartment on Monday, so Caleb is moving into my old room that Smith has been living in for two years, which means having to re-organize all the closet space in the whole house as well as moving furniture... It's been hectic, to say the least. I'm so glad I won't be here when the construction begins. That's right. My parents decided now would be a good time to renovate the bathrooms (okay, that was kind of forced by the floor that completely rotted out from underneath the house) AND add another room onto the house. Insanity.
Tanzania: I'm basically losing my mind right now. Everything is (hopefully) packed, but like I said I've had no time to relax, so my sleep schedule is all off, I'm moody and dehydrated and just generally not looking forward to this trip. Which makes me saddest of all, b/c I've been waiting for it for so long. I just know I've forgotten something completely essential and I'm going to get some horrible exotic disease because of it. It would be my lousy luck... But I am trying to think positive. This is going to be an incredible experience. It's an experience I am lucky to have. I think I'm allowed a bit of nervousness at least, though.
Camp: Excited, I guess? There are a lot of little things I don't really have time for, though, and that's definitely frustrating. For example, the medical form I'm supposed to have a doctor fill out at some point before getting to training? Right, I can totally do that in the 12 hours between getting back to America and showing up in Raleigh. Piece of cake. I'm glad Lauren won't be far away, though. It's a small--but nice--security blanket to have her around on weekends. I didn't realize, though, that my cousin was going to be in town all summer for an internship she got in Greenville. I'm a little bummed out that I won't get to see her much, since she goes to school so far away and basically has her life figured out and settled in Georgia. So far away.
So anyway, I'm pretty tired now, seeing as how it's after 1. It might not be a bad idea for me to sleep. Obviously, I won't tell you to be expecting any news from me directly within the next two weeks at least, but I hope that you will continue to hold all of us who are traveling in the light (or pray for us or think about us or whatever it is that you do in those kinds of situations). It should be a safe journey, but it's a long one, and there are a lot of nervous people involved. I hope to return in one piece so I can tell you all about it.
Semester recap: my dorm room is haunted; I'm not going to Ireland; I don't like Arthurian literature; I made a 4.0; I have awesome friends. That about covers it.
I got home Tuesday thinking I could kind of relax, prepare myself for the trip, read a good book, watch some junk tv, etc. and then immediately realized I had four days to unpack all of my stuff and re-pack it depending on whether I was taking it to Africa, camp, Columbia (that's right--I already packed for the fall semester), or staying here. Not to mention the fact that Smith is moving into an apartment on Monday, so Caleb is moving into my old room that Smith has been living in for two years, which means having to re-organize all the closet space in the whole house as well as moving furniture... It's been hectic, to say the least. I'm so glad I won't be here when the construction begins. That's right. My parents decided now would be a good time to renovate the bathrooms (okay, that was kind of forced by the floor that completely rotted out from underneath the house) AND add another room onto the house. Insanity.
Tanzania: I'm basically losing my mind right now. Everything is (hopefully) packed, but like I said I've had no time to relax, so my sleep schedule is all off, I'm moody and dehydrated and just generally not looking forward to this trip. Which makes me saddest of all, b/c I've been waiting for it for so long. I just know I've forgotten something completely essential and I'm going to get some horrible exotic disease because of it. It would be my lousy luck... But I am trying to think positive. This is going to be an incredible experience. It's an experience I am lucky to have. I think I'm allowed a bit of nervousness at least, though.
Camp: Excited, I guess? There are a lot of little things I don't really have time for, though, and that's definitely frustrating. For example, the medical form I'm supposed to have a doctor fill out at some point before getting to training? Right, I can totally do that in the 12 hours between getting back to America and showing up in Raleigh. Piece of cake. I'm glad Lauren won't be far away, though. It's a small--but nice--security blanket to have her around on weekends. I didn't realize, though, that my cousin was going to be in town all summer for an internship she got in Greenville. I'm a little bummed out that I won't get to see her much, since she goes to school so far away and basically has her life figured out and settled in Georgia. So far away.
So anyway, I'm pretty tired now, seeing as how it's after 1. It might not be a bad idea for me to sleep. Obviously, I won't tell you to be expecting any news from me directly within the next two weeks at least, but I hope that you will continue to hold all of us who are traveling in the light (or pray for us or think about us or whatever it is that you do in those kinds of situations). It should be a safe journey, but it's a long one, and there are a lot of nervous people involved. I hope to return in one piece so I can tell you all about it.
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