All Day I Dream About Food!

Well my flights are booked! (mostly)
So of course I have my dream first meal picked out (paying attention Mommy?):
Tomato soup w/ Parmesan cheese on top and
A grilled cheese sandwich and
Cottage cheese and
Yogurt and
At least 5 glasses of milk and
An ice cream sundae for desert
WISCONSIN, HERE I COME!!!!!!

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Excited

update

In case the comments on the other weren't seen ;)

Cardozo :)
Emory :)
Vanderbilt :)
Madison :)
Michigan :/ (waitlist)
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Wasn't bad news

So the small envelope was just a letter letting me know the application is complete. Whew!...
An update on what I know so far:

I move out of my village one month from today. Not sure when I'll be home, but think April.
Everyone with intentions of 'always meaning to write', don't, it probably won't get to me before I leave. Of course, you could send it to my Mommy's house, but then, you could call me there, too.....
Anyone up for Leon's?

School answers:
Caradozo :)
Emory :)
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"make sure your face clears up before you come home"

...that was the last thing Mindela said to me after I walked him to the gate of the Ndeke hotel in Lusaka. He means well; he meant to stop stressing out - but really sometimes men are so good at inserting their feet in their mouths. Gotta love 'em anyway...

Just wanted to put a quick note since things have been so busy - I've barely had any time to write or any money for stamps.

I leave my village for good in less than 2 months! Crazy! Can't believe I'll be back so soon. Have to figure out where I'll be headed next. Mindela told me there's a lot of mail waiting for me at his place - read some of the return addresses. The school I wanted most is a small envelop - I was super sad; small envelopes are never good news. I explained that to him and his response to cheer me up was, "but there's still Harvard"! He was being serious but at least he made me laugh.

I miss everyone!

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Happy Holidays!

Still in a giving mood?
HELP!!! http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=resources.donors.projdetail&projdesc=611-012
If the link doesn't work go to www.peacecorps.gov then click donors and follow the links to Zambia

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas :) I spent mine with Mindela's family in Lusaka - it was nice but no snow, no tree, no train, no sheepshead, no white zinfandel, no new Christmas dresses, no Clue :( - just lots of friendly, happy people, extended family and Christmas cheer :)

The week before was spent conducting our CSC training workshop, it was a huge pain and very stressful but I think it went well and all the participants were super excited to take their new knowledge back to their communities! The first 3 days the comments were all about asking for money - by the end the comments had changed to "God bless you" - that made us all (Me, Timmy and Mindela) feel much better about all our hard work.

In case your wondering why the link above asks you to give money to a project that's done - there were problems here in getting the information through all the right people and we couldn't reschedule because of the school schedule so we (same we as above) fronted all the money from our pay. Means we're broke (temporarily I hope!), but it was well worth it. Originally the budget was $600 - it didn't change, the exchange rate went from K4,800 to k3,300! Practically overnight - crazy, heh?!

Miss you all! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
see you in 3 months!

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Chipper