FOUR DAYS!!!

Only four days left until I board the plane ... I'm getting more anxious (and antsy) to just get over there every day. I feel like I've been planning and preparing for so long, that now, I just want to be there doing it ... I can't plan or prepare anything else; what's done is done.

I leave Eureka for San Francisco on Friday. We'll do dinner and drinks with my friend Lina on Friday evening in SF (hopefully we can meet up with Lisa, Robin and Jill as well). Saturday's schedule is up in the air (the way I like things these days). Then Sunday Mike is flying up from Santa Barbara to spend the day with us and see me off.

The plan is to arrive around noon in Bangkok on the 31st (which is around 10 PM on the 30th in California). I will be staying in Bangkok until August 4th, when I take a shuttle down to Ban Phe to move into my place at the school. Orientation is on Sunday and I start classes on Monday.

There is supposed to be an internet cafe close to the school, so I'll be able to keep in touch. I will hopefully be buying a phone during my stay in Bangkok, but due to the crazy time difference I'm not sure how much calling to the U.S. I'll be able to do ... But I'll soon find out.

Ok ... I'm tired, and need to get a few more things packed so that I can go to bed without worrying about having forgotten something (I'm so OCD sometimes it's silly).