Well we leave in less than 4 days and I'm definitely getting excited and a little bit freaked out. Though I don't think it has officially hit me yet. It might not until I get on the plane. We're in Abilene right now seeing the Haseltines again before we go and dropping off Caspian until he's able to join us in September. We go home tomorrow and I think that I'll be sadder to leave him than anyone because he doesn't understand that we're not leaving him for good. But he'll be taken good care of and have fun and then we'll see him again in September. Jeff and Gwynn are giving us some good Japanese lessons in the midst of helping us work out countless details, and as usual we have books and papers spread out everywhere. It's a good thing our parents love us. :)
It's amazing how much there is to do when you move out of the country. I never realized how much I was responsible for until I had to start wrapping things up. Now I wish we had started sooner on some things. So (advertisement coming...) if anybody is looking to buy a car, we have two!
The Pre-Departure Orientation is Friday night at the residence of the Consul-General of Japan in Houston. I imagine that is going to be quite an experience. And to add to it all, I was asked yesterday to give a short speech at the reception that follows on behalf of all of the JETs that are flying out with us. How crazy is that? I guess I should prepare something, but I tend to give better speeches when I just wing it. Probably not a good idea in front of the Consul-General though, huh? So I guess I'll be writing that Thursday night.
So anyway, we've got almost everything done or at least figured out for the meantime. Wish us luck in final preparations. Here we go!
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