...until I head out for staging in Philidelphia and then onto Kenya!! I got a call from the Peace Corps yesterday asking if I would be willing to consider switching to a new project area. So I am still going to be teaching secondary science, BUT I will now be working with deaf students in Kenya!! I will have to learn 2 new languages now, Swahili and Kenyan Sign Language, but I am so excited. I took a semester of American Sign Language in college and can't wait to learn some Kenyan Sign. The teaching math and science is a new area in the Kenyan Sign Language project so I will be helping to pave a new path kind of, which is really unnerving but VERY exciting at the same time.
I attempted to pack yesterday also, and you would be amazed at how much stuff I was able to cram into my hikers backpack and duffle bag! It will be interesting to see how I am able to manuever all of my luggage around between airports, I'm pretty sure it'll be pretty comical.
My dad had a going away party for me a couple of weeks ago. My little brother made this amazing chocolate cake for the party that he decorated (with the direction of my sister :) to look like Kenya with a bunch of safari animals on it and Mt. Kilimanjaro along the border. I must say, it was probably the best chocolate cake that I have ever had, so thank you Zane! It was so fun and great to be able to see the family and friends that I don't get to see very often. Thank you for coming and spending some time with me! Much love to you all.
In the few remaining days I'm to continue to see my family as much as possible. It's hard to imagine that my little brother will be 14 the next time that I come home to see him, and I dont even want to think about how much bigger he will be by then. And he'll be just about to start high school, Oh my goodness! My sister will be teaching art by then and my two little neices and all my little cousins will have grown up so much also. So many new endevours for everyone to experience, I can't wait to hear about it all in the letters from everyone :)
Oh I can't forget, I get to have one more potato salad party with Tammy and Alysia before I leave :) So excited! Wish you could be there with us Tina. Miss you so much already!
I better go and start to refresh on some sign language, and start to get to used to using my hands like that again!
Good night (Usiku mwema)
Thursday, October 22, 2009
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