First of all, this is my first blog aside from one I needed for a McNamara class. I think they're silly, narcissistic and boring--besides Perez! Bear with me. So, tomorrow I'm finally leaving to go to Moshi, Tanzania for an internship and summer, I've been preparing for since late October. It didn't feel like I was actually going or doing anything but planning and talking about going until really yesterday. Even with all my shots, tummy bug pills and mosquito net-shopping, I didn't feel like I was leaving until a conversation I had with my good friend, Gabi last night. We were on the phone, she in Las Vegas 2 hours behind and me in Chicago, looking through Netflix and things that were available on instant watch. When we made it to the children and family section, I lit up when I saw that now on instant watch, you could watch Rugrats, Hey Arnold and Rocko's Modern Life.

"Gabi! I just want to stay home in my AC all summer and watch old Nickelodeon cartoons, see my family, and spend my nights at Sam's with my old friends. They don't even have Memorial Day weekend in Tanzania!" I was half joking, as basically all of Gabi and my relationship is sarcasm, but I thought about it, and I am having a great time here this week at home doing all of those things in-between preparing for TZ. However, I would not want to be giving up my Tanzanian summer for Rugrats, and I think that because I'm thinking of these things, I finally realize I'm leaving tomorrow. I've been excited the whole school year, but I now am looking at my summer not only with excitement but with reality, which is a bit more nerve wrecking.

I will arrive in Moshi sometime Sunday. I don't know the time difference, but I get there Moshi time Sunday at 8:30 pm. I leave tomorrow at 4:20pm from O'hare and have a layover in Amsterdam for about 4 hours. For anyone reading this blog, I'll try and write more once I settle in TZ and find internet. ooo and put up pictures once I take them. Kwaheri! (bye in swahili)