A few quick notes, no time for more!

Things are happening so fast! Today is the last real day of training; we close everything out today, watch some final presentations, have our language interview meetings, and clean up the center. Tomorrow is a crazy day of meeting our counterparts first thing, spending the morning with them in guided activities (I think), eating lunch together, and then heading over to Tegucigalpa! We all go to the embassy together and have our swearing-in ceremony at three. After that, most of the group is being bussed right down to a restaurant in Valle that’s agreed to host a little goodbye party/dinner for the evening. Then it’s home to pack and we leave Saturday morning!

I’m still working out the details with my counterparts and everyone, since it seems like all seven of us going to Ocotepeque might be using a small, private bus to get back with our counterparts, though mine might be leaving the day before. It’s all still up in the air but all I’m hoping for is to not have to take a bus back and to be able to go to the party with everyone. Keep your fingers crossed for all of us!

I’m running through a lot of emotions these past few days, but overall I just can’t believe tomorrow I’ll be sworn in as an official Peace Corps volunteer. I want to reflect on it more later, but there were definitely moments throughout the last eleven weeks when I did not think I would be where I am – and when I didn’t want to end up here. But as of now, I’m super psyched and proud of all of us. I’m nervous and scared and excited and anxious and worried…but above all, I think excited. Like I said, I’ll reflect more on it later but I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for reading thus far and keeping me on track throughout training with your love, comments, emails, packages, letters, Facebook chats/messages/wall posts, Gchats, thoughts, prayers, texts, and general encouragement. I’ve appreciated every single instance of support, big or small, and from this weekend on, PC is going to mean a different thing to all of us. I can’t wait to start figuring out what that is for me.