Things I am excited about...

I've been spending too much time worried about what I'm doing and how on earth I'm going to get everything ready and get moved to Wisconsin, etc. I even had a dream the other night that a friend from UNC was at my house to pick me up to leave for Guinea and I hadn't finished packing! I had to pack really quickly and give my mom the order form for the Chaco sandals that PCVs get a discount on...

So here's what I'm excited about, in no particular order.

In Wisconsin

• Spending time with my family.
• Going to Minneapolis to see my brother, his girlfriend and my dear friends Julie and Ky
• Eating food off Heidi's china in her grown-up house
• Going to the grocery store
• Being on the lake
• Finally organizing my finances, crap and life
• Not paying rent for a month
• Having cable and a big TV
• Not working for a month
• Driving a car
• Going to the YMCA
• Finishing all the packing and purchasing I have to do before I leave at the end of June

In Guinea

• Meeting new friends, both Guineans and other PCVs
• Learning French and a local language
• Being outside all the time
• Running, bike riding and generally being more active
• Learning how to cook with few utensils
• Finding a community and a home to call my own for 2 years
• Figuring out how to teach English
• Starting a girls' club to encourage girls' education
• Going to the Girls' Conference that the PCVs put on every year with a girl from my community
• Learning more about West African politics, problems and culture
• Not seeing George Bush on the news every day
• Weaning myself from my celebrity obsession
• Deciding where I want to apply to graduate school
• Traveling around Guinea
• Traveling during and after my service - going to Zanzibar, Kilimanjaro, Morocco, Egypt and South Africa!

So that's what I'm excited about!