Philly!

Hello loyal blog readers, I have safely landed in Philly and have survived staging!

Holy cow I've already had adventures. Life is never boring with me, seriously...I'm getting a little tired of the karma monsters chasing me...seriously.

The night before my flight I discovered that my music wouldn't load onto my IPOD, so I have 36 songs total with me. It actually happened at 3 in the morning and I had to leave at 4:30, so I sat at the computer bawling for a little while and then decided to suck it up and move on. Man I was devastated though...I was soooo excited about the thing!!! I guess I just have to sing a lot of made up songs in Cameroon :)

Everyone in my group is amazing. I was so excited to meet so many wonderful people. I'm being totally cheesy, but I don't think I've ever been in a group of people that I liked/appreciated/could identify with as much as this group, it's awesome. Did I mention I like them?

I would just like to publicly point out how amazingly funny my friend Betsy is. When she came over to hang out on my last night she hid some rubber snakes in my carry-on. I discovered one in the middle of the night that last night and I actually found the other while I was on the plane. You did awesome buddy. (Just so you know, it's funny because she and I are totally crazy about the movie Snakes on a Plane)...pictures to follow of the rubber snakes attacking me on the plane :)

We got 3 shots this morning: Yellow Fever, MMR, and Polio. Oo..and we start our malaria pills today. In case anyone is interested in reading about the side effects of my pills, I am on Lariam. Craziness here I come!!

Man I'm totally pumped right now and I know there is more to say, but I will write you guys later, right now I need to go see the sites in Philly and hang out with my "homies."

Awesome.

It is time...

I apologize for not writing more lately, but holy cow getting ready to leave the country is a lot of work! It is 1:30 in the morning, and I’m supposed to be up in 2 hours to get ready to leave for the airport for staging. Aaaagh! If I get everything done and all of my stuff makes it on the plane, it will be a miracle :)

Thank you to everyone who called to wish me luck today and to remind me that I’m loved. This was a wonderful warm and fuzzy day. I love you guys!

Stay tuned to hear how my miniature flight to Philly went!!

Whoa...14 days!

Hello faithful Amber’s blog readers! (i.e. Aunt Mary) :)

Wow, so much has happened lately, I’m actually starting to feel ready for this adventure to begin! In exactly two weeks I fly out to Philadelphia for PC staging!!

Sadly, with my departure comes the end of celebrate Amber time!:Two weekends ago my family drove up to Minnesota and I did the extended family goodbyes. That was a lot of fun, but the goodbye part was hard. My uncle has 4 cats and 1 kitten right now, so I had a wonderful time ‘harassing’ them.

Last weekend our good family friends had us over for what I liked to call “Celebrate Amber dinner.” Saying goodbye to them was super hard, the kids are going to be huge when I get back!!

Sunday was my party with my friends, and it rocked hardcore. We went to Dave & Busters and shot dinosaurs and raced cars and laughed and laughed and laughed. I have some awesome pictures that I’ll be able to take with me. I’m going to miss you girls like crazy!

This Saturday, my parents, my sister, and I are getting on a plane to Yellowstone to celebrate our last week together. (Or, the final hurrah during ‘celebrate Amber time.’) I’m calling this plane trip my practice run for loading up all of my stuff for Philly.

Speaking of my trip to Philly, I looked up my flight/plane and oh my goodness…I am on a baby plane! There are 52 seats, and I am in the one marked red for “worst seat on the plane.” I thought that was pretty cool.

Great news: I sold my car!!!! And I sold it to a wonderful family who will treat it well and who are giving me full asking price. I pretty much love them. :)

Please check out my new sites on the right: 'Write to Amber!', and 'Amber's packing list.' Both are very educational and pretty. :)