Graduation

Today is graduation. It's been an awesome four years but I think I'm ready to take the next step in my life. I've been doing everything I can to prepare for the Philippines. Of course as soon as I sent off my old passport I realized I needed it for our upcoming family vacation. Looks like I'll be driving to San Diego to try and get a new one...but I've been looking for an excuse to head to the coast anyway! I think I finally got almost all of the paperwork out of the way and I've been using the Pimsleur program to get a head start on the Tagalog language.  I know there's a huge chance that a completely different language will be spoken where I'm assigned but I figured it will at least help out for the three months of training in Manila. It looks like I'll be able to have a cell phone and and can call and text internationally for relatively cheap, so hopefully that will make keeping in touch easier! If anyone wants a phone card, let me know and I'll try and get you one.