So close and yet so far...

So yesterday was the bake sale which went awesomely! I am stunned that we were able to raise over $200 in three hours by selling goodies in lower Coffman. It's so exciting to see people who are willing to donate to Open Arms! And seeing the money I am getting from people who are family and friends, it makes me so excited. To think that I still have a door offering at church to do, we are going to beat the amount that the other school (St.Thomas??) raised!!
On another note I got my shots today. It turns out that I apparently am special and don't need malaria meds or anything but I did get Hepatitis A and typhoid shots. I thought that I would need more but I was pleasantly surprised when it was just the two shots and other preventative measures like drinking filtered water. My only concern is that I should have gotten a flu shot. I didn't realize that it will be flu season in South Africa while we are there. Though if things are similar to how they are here at home... i won't catch it!
Only 24 more days to go!!!

Only one more month!

So I went in to the bank today to apply for a credit card and to exchange my dollars for rand and I realized... there is pretty much only one more month until we leave. For me this is both petrifying and exciting. Petrifying because I feel like there is so much to do for school before the semester ends. why do teachers do that? It's like they all have a convention together and agree that since it's the end of the semester they should all just pile everything on the students so that they get freaked out just before finals. You would think that having a midterm one week before the class final would also be a silly thing to do, but apparently not. I'm also scared that we are leaving so soon because there is still a lot to do for China and South Africa before we leave. On the other hand I am so excited to be there and to learn more about the people and the culture. Traveling is so much fun and the fact that I get to go with 15 people is going to make it awesome.

By the way to my lovely readers... I apologize for my awkwardness and inability to write a super interesting blog. I personally blame it on my Computer science nerdiness (<-- random laugh my spell check wanted to change that to neediness). Any way, I contribute my inexperience to the fact that in IT (or CSE as it is now called) we don't usually have to write papers or express these strange things called feelings *gasp*. Soooo these will probably just be structured like my brain for a while... in other words it will be random and at times probably make no sense what the flow is. But bear (or is it bare???) with me and I will do my best to not kill your brain cells.

So it has begun...

I can officially say that it is beginning to hit me, I am really going to be traveling halfway around the globe with a group of fifteen people. Though after today's meeting, i can truthfully say that the group I'm going with is pretty much amazing. I am looking forward to allowing these 15 people into my life and learning about them. Hopefully they will hold me accountable for making this trip as meaningful as possible for me. With all the challenges that are bound to come along, I will need their help. Whether that comes in the form of comedic relief, a shoulder to lean on, or a sounding board, I do not yet know. Only time will tell what South Africa will truly bring and hopefully I don't spend the next however many days imagining. After all, only time will tell!