Blogging... #1

I'm not the kind of person to keep a journal and post it on the internet, but it was suggested to me (by some of my most amazing friends) that this would be a good way for people to stay connected with me, as I look to move half way around the globe. I'd like to stay connected; that's basically my biggest fear, that I'll move away and come back next year, or the year after that, and find that everyone's lives have gone on and I somehow missed it all. For that not to happen, you have to keep in touch with me as well! Sign up for Skype, email me often, and call me when I get a phone number. I'm pretty much going to need all the support I can get...

So, if you're interested and have some down time at work, or find yourself bored on a Sunday afternoon, or need to procrastinate on some unexciting but necessary thing you have to do, feel free to check out my blog and keep up with my happenings. I promise to fill you in on all the crazy things I do and say, no matter how utterly humiliating. (If that's not a good reason to read, I don't know what is!) I'll let you know when my 4th graders say something hilarious, or when I totally mess up a lesson and teach something absolutely false in a science lesson. 

To live and work overseas is a dream come true; I keep thinking of that as I pack and say all these goodbyes. But it's still so hard - and definitely getting harder. I somehow always can focus on the new beginning and let the thing that's ending slip away easily. Not today. Not this ending. So while I'm trying to figure out how to cram a years worth of clothes, teaching materials, sentimental stuff, and all the miscellaneous things that I can't live without but they don't have in China (i.e. deodorant!) into two 50-lb.-or-less suitcases, know that I'm thinking of the people that I'm leaving behind. Well, I'm off to go repack; maybe it will all fit this time...