9 day countdown

well, here it is... my first official blog. I can't believe that I am actually leaving for Uganda and a whole new life in only 9 days!! I have been crazy busy the last few weeks (actually who am I kidding...I am ALWAYS crazy busy) and the fact that I have less than 2 weeks left in the states hasn't quite sunk in yet. There are still a million and one things I need/want to do before I leave and I am begininning to realize that this is going to turn into another classic Sarah move where I won't even begin packing until midnight the night before I leave. That reminds me... my acutal day of departure is in the early am of aug. 4th for philadelphia and my "Staging" and then from there I go to uganda on aug 7th.

Nikki and Marshall (my bff and her boyfriend) helped me set this whole thing up because as most of you know I am basically computer illiterate. We had quite the time picking out the title for the page. Some of the contenders were clever little ditties like "sarganda" and "ugandamissme" and "ugandan curlumentary" and "chronicles of sarnia"...(nikki and I are having just as much fun trying to remember the best of the batch as we did trying to think of them in the first place). Side note....these are the kinds of things that make me get a little sad about leaving...I'm going to miss hearing Nikki laugh when she thinks she just thought of a really funny one.

Well, with only 9 days left of California livin' I need to get out there and live it up...