The Beginning of a Blog

HELLO EVERYONE! Welcome to my blog. I guess I'm officially a blogger now...baha.  I don't know why blogging seems so funny to me.  I think it's because the word sounds funny.  Or maybe it's because I feel like I'm talking to myself.  Hmm.. 

Regardless of what it is, I'm really going to try to keep up with this thing because I think it will be a good way to let everyone know what I'm doing and a good thing to be able to look back on when I'm done.  First, though, I'm going to have to figure out how to upload pictures and such...so this may be experimental for a while.  

I'm going to try to think of this as more of a diary (that I'm letting you lucky people read :) ) because I have this problem where when I write things for other people, I tend to obsessively edit them.  Starting right now, though, I'm declaring this a candid blog.  No editing!...so whatever comes out, well...it came out.

Alright, so here's the deal.  I'm going to Costa Rica (tomorrow!!) for a month and volunteering in the kindergarten classroom of an elementary school.  I'm going to be living at a base with other volunteers and traveling on the weekends...so hopefully we will get ourselves into lots of adventures involving rainforests, ziplines, monkeys, tropical fruits, waterfalls, Costa Rican natives, and the like.  As far as the little kids go, I absolutely CANNOT WAIT to meet them, learn about their lives, and see what I can do to help.  I'm keeping my dad's advice in mind that these kids are probably going to teach me a lot more than I teach them, but I hope I can at lest make a small impact and share a little bit (or a lot bit) of love in the short time that I'm there.  Somehow, a month doesn't feel like very long to me anymore (I think that's why making myself pack has been so difficult), but I remember that when I was in kindergarten, a month felt like forever.  I mean, in the 2nd grade I thought that the average song was 15 minutes long! That was a little off.  Anyway, my point is that hopefully this month will be long enough, at least from the perspective of the kindergarteners, for a significant amount of learning to occur. 

 

I'm off tomorrow at 6:15 am! Leaving the house at 4:30...eesh.  I'm a little nervous, but mostly just excited. !!!!!!!!!!! (that's a sentence consisting of only punctuation to show me being excited) I'll update again soon, I promise! Goodbye all! (assuming that more people than my dad read this..) 

and goodbye for now, dear blog. baha.

:)