Well, today's the day. I'm shipping out on a 6:30 pm flight, and it is currently 7:23 am (as of finishing this, 8 am). At the moment I've pulled a usual Kevin's method of preparing for leaving by not actually packing pretty much anything last night and having a giant list of things to do today. Luckily this time I have about ten hours in which to complete all of these tasks, rather than the three hours I'd usually have to do everything at ND.
I actually set my alarm for 8 am, so I suppose nervous excitement (or the fact that I'd been consistently waking up at 6:45 for my job) has taken over.
Since I need to make a list of things to do today anyway, I figured I might as well make it here:
(1) Laundry
(2) Call USAA and ask them not to (necessarily) flip out if someone tries to use an ATM card in Guatemala or Honduras.
(3) Talk to a few people to whom I still need to say "Bye!" (I have no clue whether that was a grammatically correct wording. I spent about five minutes just now reading Grammar Girl instructions on when to use "who" vs. "whom" and that was my best guess, but honestly I sort of gave up. After a while it seemed a silly thing to be spending my time on)
(4) Pick up a few last-minute supplies for the trip: battery-powered alarm clock, sunglasses (maybe?), daily planner, at least one other thing that's slipping my mind right now..
(5) Mail a few more fundraising letters to some people I should've mailed things to months ago.
(6) Figure out exactly which clothes I'm bringing with me and separate them into vacuum-packable and non-vacuum-packable (cause I'll be in Guatemala for two months before I get to my long-term location).
(7) Actually pack everything into my suitcase(s) and backpack. (I'm a votin' for it all goin' into one suitcase, but there are a few things that ain't gonna easily fit well (Please Excuse My Dear Accented Speakin'))
(8) Listen to Chicken Fried, The Wind, Stereo Hearts, (cough, maybe Call Me Maybe and one or two songs by One Direction, endcough), In The Mood, Sing Sing Sing, and a few others at least once today.
Hmm... I'm definitely forgetting something.
Oh well!
Monday, July 30, 2012
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Hey guys!
Long time no post. My apologies on that front. In the last month, I've graduated from ND and headed back home to San Antonio, where I'm working with a program called PREP, that gives middle and high school students the opportunity to take higher level classes than they would otherwise be able to take at that age. I'm working at Texas A&M University - San Antonio, a really new campus. It's fun but challenging, and giving me a glimpse of what it'll be like working with kids all the time in the near future.
I've also been trying to balance this summer job with other avenues of fundraising (we're up to $5,625, so thanks to all who have contributed!) and with brushing up on my Spanish.. I hadn't realized how much I'd forgotten about Spanish.
There really isn't that much else in the way of exciting news at the moment. I suppose I booked my flight (which leaves on July 30th) about a week ago... I saved ~ $200 by booking a flight with a 13 hour layover in Mexico City! I also got my passport a couple days ago and made an appointment for immunizations... but none of that is really terrible exciting.
I hope all are doing well, and I'll try to come up with something more interesting to talk about in the near future!
Long time no post. My apologies on that front. In the last month, I've graduated from ND and headed back home to San Antonio, where I'm working with a program called PREP, that gives middle and high school students the opportunity to take higher level classes than they would otherwise be able to take at that age. I'm working at Texas A&M University - San Antonio, a really new campus. It's fun but challenging, and giving me a glimpse of what it'll be like working with kids all the time in the near future.
I've also been trying to balance this summer job with other avenues of fundraising (we're up to $5,625, so thanks to all who have contributed!) and with brushing up on my Spanish.. I hadn't realized how much I'd forgotten about Spanish.
There really isn't that much else in the way of exciting news at the moment. I suppose I booked my flight (which leaves on July 30th) about a week ago... I saved ~ $200 by booking a flight with a 13 hour layover in Mexico City! I also got my passport a couple days ago and made an appointment for immunizations... but none of that is really terrible exciting.
I hope all are doing well, and I'll try to come up with something more interesting to talk about in the near future!
Saturday, May 5, 2012
First Post!
Hey guys, Kevin here!
I'm mostly just testing out the main features of this blog at the moment. I haven't exactly decided what ratio of Finca-related stuff to everything else I'm going to post for the time being. I'd imagine once I get down there, I'll hardly have enough time to post about Finca, much less about everything else, so it'll probably become more focused over time.
Anyway, thanks for taking the time to read this blog! I'm really excited about what I'm going to be doing for the next few years, and I'm delighted that you were interested enough in it to share that experience with me.
My apologies for having very little of substance to say right now. I'm currently in the middle of study days for the last finals week of my college career. That's a very terrifying prospect in some respects. In others, I suppose ND has done a halfway decent job of making me realize that this was all temporary in the first place, and that my real place in life is out in the world, trying to have a positive impact on others in society.
There's also a weird dynamic going on with respect to the old and the new, here. I'm having to balance my time between studying for my finals (oh, Philosophical Issues in Physics, why do you torment me?) and fundraising for the Finca. Unfortunately the former is very much winning right now. That's not a spectacularly positive thing for my fundraising efforts. I only have a limited amount of time left on the ND campus. I should be using most of it wisely. I'll just have to make that happen on Wednesday of finals week, when I'm done with all but one of my finals.
Anyway, for now, I'd better head out. I've got a lovely bunch of philosophical issues within quantum mechanics to make sure I understand.
- Kevin
I'm mostly just testing out the main features of this blog at the moment. I haven't exactly decided what ratio of Finca-related stuff to everything else I'm going to post for the time being. I'd imagine once I get down there, I'll hardly have enough time to post about Finca, much less about everything else, so it'll probably become more focused over time.
Anyway, thanks for taking the time to read this blog! I'm really excited about what I'm going to be doing for the next few years, and I'm delighted that you were interested enough in it to share that experience with me.
My apologies for having very little of substance to say right now. I'm currently in the middle of study days for the last finals week of my college career. That's a very terrifying prospect in some respects. In others, I suppose ND has done a halfway decent job of making me realize that this was all temporary in the first place, and that my real place in life is out in the world, trying to have a positive impact on others in society.
There's also a weird dynamic going on with respect to the old and the new, here. I'm having to balance my time between studying for my finals (oh, Philosophical Issues in Physics, why do you torment me?) and fundraising for the Finca. Unfortunately the former is very much winning right now. That's not a spectacularly positive thing for my fundraising efforts. I only have a limited amount of time left on the ND campus. I should be using most of it wisely. I'll just have to make that happen on Wednesday of finals week, when I'm done with all but one of my finals.
Anyway, for now, I'd better head out. I've got a lovely bunch of philosophical issues within quantum mechanics to make sure I understand.
- Kevin
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