I'm outta here...I'm going to miss you all so much!!!! Please, please, please remember to stay in touch...it will be much easier (and probably faster) for me to receive your messages...mine will take a bit longer.

Everyone be good and best of luck to you all in the coming years :)

I can hardly believe it! Tomorrow morning at 8:15 am, I fly out of Logan headed to San Francisco. I'll spend two days there for orientation, meeting my fellow PCT's and then heading off on Wednesday to Phnom Penh. I can still remember returning home from France and getting the phone call from PC headquarters asking if I would be interested in a new program in Cambodia. I thought two months was plenty of time...I should know better!

Packing is going well...I made sure to be organized and made a checklist well in advance which really is making the whole packing process easier.

Mom is a wreck, but I am doing surprisingly well. I've done this international travel act two times already...both for an extended period of time as well. I think my brain is wired for this sort of stress now ;) I don't think I'll cry until I've actually arrived in Cambodia and the reality of my decision will hit me. I'm not saying that I'm going to be upset over or regret my decision, but I've only been in first-world, European countries. The reality of being away from my family and my friends, my town, my food, my homey comforts...those won't be with me when I arrive and that will be the hardest for me. But this is all canceled out when I think about the wonderful opportunities I have awaiting me....advancement in so many different things, helping people who need my talents and abilities, the rewards of helping those people and being able to live and understand a culture so different from my own. This will be life changing and as scared and anxious as I am about it, knowing that there will be good times and bad times, I know that this is something I was meant to do.

I wouldn't take back this opportunity for the world...