MASS e-mails # 3 and 4
For all of you who don't get my e-mails but read my livejournal, here are the last two I sent out! If you are just now reading these, look at the passage below! I sent two before these two! Love you all!!
Hello Family and Friends,
First off sorry I have been slacking on writing these mass e-mails. I realize that I have been here for a month now, or coming up a month on Monday Feb. 11. The day after my birthday just incase some of you forgot ;) haha. Anyways, it’s been a busy time here down here in Cape Town. The last week was filled with final papers for my two classes, History of South Africa and Anthropology for Christian Life. We also had two presentations due for each class. So that is what I have been focusing a lot of my time on instead of having fun! Haha just kidding I am still having a great time.
So here are the fun things! Everyday I wake up to my dog outside the house howling at the Muslim prayer at 4:30 AM! I sleep the next few hours until I get awaken by the boys; they come into the room with grill cheese sandwiches, yogurt and cereal! Brian has my tea down perfect, just the way I like it! ☺ It makes my mornings great. The last week we had no school due to our papers and presentations. So on my time off I am either in Cape Town’s city, doing something crazy like swimming with sharks or petting cheetah’s, or kicking the soccer ball around with Brian and the neighborhood kids. Its quite fun! (Dad you would be stoked how much I am picking up my old soccer skills).
Tonight Brian, Chelsea, Tyler, and I took our home stay parents out for a dinner. We ate at this amazing Ethiopian place, and it was an amazing experience. I been eating at REALLY amazing restaurants lately. The other day I ate at this place called MAYO and it was all African style buffets, and I had antelope and Ostrich, the antelope was GREAT, but I was not a huge fan of the ostrich. I also ate at this Mediterranean place, where we sat on the floor with pillows and belly dancers everywhere. It was a blast!! Such good food, and I have only been sick twice, but its because I don’t drink enough water here I believe. I am still sunburn; I doubt it will ever go away. So Shark swimming was sweet, although my group did not get to see any sharks when we were in the cage, it was still amazing because I saw three great whites about 5 feet away from me when I was on the boat, and it grabbed the large tuna head we had on board! I saw all its teeth and the shark was about 4 meters long, times that by 3 and it means the shark was around 12 feet long! It was awesome. When I was eating at MAYO the other night we could go pet cheetahs and that was really fun! The place was beautiful, we ate in a tree house basically and the people who worked there painted our faces.
I have fallen in love with a singer named Ryan Adams, he is my favorite thing ever, I thought Id share since I am listening to him now. Its about midnight here, and I am up while everyone is sleeping. Go figure the insomniac is not tired. Tomorrow looks like the beach since I am done with my homework. Which means I should go to bed early to get up and call Mandy around 9.
Okay, I’m rambling. We leave Cape Town on Friday around 5:30 AM. Tomorrow night Thursday, we are having a BBQ or known as a Brie here. All of our families and us from the school are invited and I’m so excited it should be fun. I’m sad to leave Cape Town and the family I have been living with! They have been amazing! I LOVE them. They will be very much missed! But then we are on the Road for 5 days traveling up to Durban area, or kwazulu land! This is where I will be the reminder of the time for the school. We are staying at the South African enterprise place near the school. I am excited I heard its really down to earth and low key, which is something I am craving right now.
I arrived in Pietermarzburg!!! (NEW UPDATE)
Hello Everyone! So I am attaching a new update to the last e-mail I never got to send out! Okay so we had a long 5-day road trip up to our new place! THIS PLACE IS BEAUTIFUL HOLY CRAP!!! I went on a run today (yes me), and it was amazing then we went exploring about, which was RAD. There is jungle ness everywhere and SO MANY MONKEYS!!! Anyways Classes started today, and I am so looking forward to it because it’s all Christian classes, which I am stoked on! Besides that over the long road trip, I turned 20!! Yes hello I am no child anymore, well maybe at heart ;)! It was a FUN birthday! And get this, It rains about 3 times a year at the place we are at in Afrika, and back in cali it rains EVERY YEAR on my birthday so I was telling people how sad it will be that I wont have rain on my birthday this year…well GUESS WHAT! It rained on my birthday! Crazy!! Thunder and lighting, which is my favorite! My friend Mandy greeted me in the morning screaming KRUSTY (nickname she calls me) ITS YOUR BIRTHDAY AND ITS RAINING!!! Then everyone sung to me! We then went to the ostrich farm where I got a double kiss from a GIRL ostrich! I was lucky ;) haha I also got to hold a baby ostrich ( FREAKIN CUTE!!!) and EVERYONE told me to name it after me so I did, its name was “Krusty Fletcher” I’m not sure where Fletcher came from but Brian insisted that it would be Fletcher as well! We could not ride the ostriches because it was raining and well they cant balance and run in the rain! But we got to go to this place to see them all run around and the leader of the farm asked me to come up front so I did! He then told EVERYONE I was going to get to ride one since it was my birthday! So I got on the ostrich and everyone was cracking up! Well then the bird went freaking nuts and ran backwards without me fully on it, and fell to the ground and I screamed and I couldn’t get up and it jutted me and ran across my foot! I was SO SCARED! Then the guy brought over a NEW one, and I got on its back and I went for a ride, it’s SO funny. A lot of people got it on video so HOPEFULLY it will be up on YOUTUBE soon and you all can watch it. We then stopped in Port Elizabeth and there was HUGE storm there! It cleared up and my girls took me out to a nice restaurant and we ate on the beach harbor! They also paid for me! It was so sweet. Okay now here is the crazy part…we got a cake and went to the beach and ate it in our underwear!! Haha okay, dad and all you church kids you might think im nuts but I am !!! and Im in afrika! Why Not?? Haha. We also did some other silly stuff, but we made a packed, and its only between us!! ( well alie don’t worry I will tell you! Oh and yes bekah and Emily and allie I will tell you too! And well all you girls ill tell you hahah)! OKAY! Don’t think I drank, I didn’t I don’t do that crap! Plus im not 21! OKAY now that we got that cleared up, I HAD an amazing birthday! So now I am in Pietermarzburg where the Internet sucks once again! I finally am sleeping on a bed and I have an amazing roomie! Her name is mikaela and she is from Minnesota! And she is a hippy and one cool girl! I LOVE HER! Okay so I am in Mandy’s room at the moment and she wants me to tell you all this story: so today I was in class (me kristy), and Regge (our instructor) we just finishing up talking when I scooted out my chair and felt myself slowly fall backwards with my feet in the air! Mandy started to crap up because I looked at her the whole time with a scarred look on my face and soon enough the whole classroom was cracking up! I could not get up, and when my friend Brian helped me up he saw that the chair had been WELDED together, not screwed, and he had NO IDEA how I broke the chair! So yes it’s been a joke that I am overly fat and break chairs all day! I also have been having BAD diarrhea all day, and its been part of my life this whole trip. I am just the joke of the trip around here. Oh well, that’s my life. So Now I must finish this LAME SILLY e-mail up because I have over 250 pages to read by tomorrow, and I have not started, but you cant blame me because I just started class today!!! IT’S INTENSE!! I love you all and I miss you all. I hope you enjoyed my birthday stories! <3 I will e-mail soon enough about more interesting fun things, but I HAVE NO TIME NOW, and the Internet SUCKS ONCE AGAIN! MISS YOU ALL VERY VERY MUCH!!! SEE YOU IN LIKE 2 MONTHS or something. <33
p.s. happy single awareness day tomorrow ( feb. 14), oh and to all you happy couples…I hope your day is grand. I think the 9 boys are doing something for us 30 girls tomorrow haha we will see. I’m sure it will be a story!
Now for the Fourth Letter:
Hello Family and Friends,
Oh it has been a while since I last wrote an e-mail, I
am so sorry. Life has been very crazy at the moment
over here in south africa at the "AE" center. Although
its been a hot summer, and very beautiful in the days,
it rains everynight! Which I wont complain about
because it puts me to sleep. Let me update you on some
crazy things!
-We have many monkey here at the African Enterprise.
We nickednamed a few of them, baby, one eye ( he has
one eye), blue balls ( you know why ), he is the
leader, well anyways, as you all know I have the best
of luck, and my room got broken into by all of them. I
kicked them out of course but they took all my food,
and pooped on my computer. haha, I guess thats monkeys
for you. One Eye, is a very mean monkey, he is bitter
i am guessing. He likes to bang on my windows and
screetch at me. I'm not sure why. Maybe he likes me.
-I went to the doctors again!! well once was for a
huge bug bite that was infected and was bigger then a
golf ball. I got medicane and now its okay! :) But
just yesterday I woke up with a HUGE lump on the right
side by my pelvic (or private area haha). I was taken
to the ER, because people thought it could be a
hemroid, sist, or my appendics. ( I know i can't spell
these big terms). As you all know, or might guess, the
doctors are not like the doctors back home. I was
checked, but they gave me anti-biotics, and said it is
an infection from a bug bite...They searched my whole
body and did not find a bug bite or a tick. So I'm not
sure if i trust their advice. Don't worry Dad, I am
watching it, if it turns out to not go away from the
medicane and the anti-flamatory pills, I will go back.
In the last 24 hours it has gotten bigger. There is no
bite on it, its inside under my skin. So it could be
something. Who knows at this point. All you believers
out there should PRAY haha.
-I am UNDER PRESSURE ( like the song), about school.
You all think school is hard, oh and it is. But when
you have intense classes that are only 6 weeks long,
its pretty NUTS. I have two 12 page papers due monday,
2 mid-terms, 2 reserach papers, and a seminar
presantation, all due on Monday, its thursday, and I
am just now doing the research. I wont have a life for
the next couple of days. And classes just started two
weeks ago. Meaning I have only had class twice!! and
All these things are due! Crazy right??? Plus my two
classes are theology and the christian life, and Life
and Teachings of Jesus, although I am learning a lot
about something I LOVE, I feel like I may die. I'm
taking the two hardest classes here, which I did not
know.
- Besdies that, I am learning some Zulu in my Zulu
class! Which I get no credit for, so sometimes I am
annoyed I have to go. But it came in handy yesterday.
I met an african woman who needed prayer about a Job.
We communicated as best as we could in Zulu and
English. It was pretty rad.
-I went to the movies for the first time the other
night, it was AMAZING. I have not been to a movie in
quite some time. I saw the bucket list. I recommend
seeing it. It is a GREAT movie. I cried and paniced at
the end, it was so sad, but so good. GO SEE IT PEOPLE.
- My Bank at home sucks, and keeps telling me my cards
are denied. So when I went to the doctors the other
day, I had to have Reg ( the head derector of this
place/my teacher), pay for everything. So Screw banks
when you are not at home.
- Besides all that stuff, i am loving life here. I am
surrounded by beauty. I am in the middle of the
freakin Jungle, forest what ever. I try and go running
to keep in shape ( all the carbs are making me gain
weight!!), and when I go running I see Zebra, its
pretty sweet!
- I wake up every morning now at 6:30, go into the
prayer chapel, and journal. I LOVE DOING IT. it makes
my mornings ten times better! Plus its really the only
alone time i get around here, everyone on my team is
friendly and wonderful that I can't stop hanging out.
- Days here are slow. If I don't have class, I sit
under a tree and read, go to the water hole and slide
down the rocks ( they are like water slides), play
soccer in the grass, or nap. I do homework too, don't
worry. But a day feels like 3. Last weekend we got a
bus, and it took us into Durban. We went to UShaka
which is a waterslide/marineworld park! I had a blast!
I went down every waterslide, and because it was Bob
Marley's birthday, they had Reggie Music playing from
a live band! I got up and danced, it was AMAZING. I'm
not a pot head so do't worry i didnt smoke a joint
haha. I never would.
-This weekend nothing is planned, which is good
because I have to study hard for all this stuff coming
up on monday! Oh and I am so excited its leap year/ear
this year! its going to ROCK. Februray is the best
month, so you can't go wrong.
- I am making a ton of friends still. I mean we have
all been friends, but the relationships are changing,
we are all growing closer and closer and becoming like
sisters and brothers. I am in love with everyone here.
=)
-The food at this place is kinda gross, but i'll suck
it up and deal. But i am starting to get real cravings
for in-and-out, chipotle, and home cooked good meals.
So someone better make me some food when I get home.
-Well I hope you found this letter intertaining. I am
sorry I slack on writing, because when I do, these
letters tend to be very long. But I have to let you
know that I am alive and doing well.
-p.s. mom if you get this, I need you to do my FASFA (
for the scholarship stuff money stuff haha), because
its due soon, and I would do it, but I don't have my
tax returns. Thanks!!!
**Okay I must go now. well i don't really have to go,
but I do not have a lot left to say! I love you all
very much, and I am starting to dream about home!! AHH
I have like 7 weeks or so left, I think! I may be
wrong haha! So I hope to hear from you all soon, or
see you when I get back. You all are so loved!!! <3 Kristy
Hello Family and Friends,
First off sorry I have been slacking on writing these mass e-mails. I realize that I have been here for a month now, or coming up a month on Monday Feb. 11. The day after my birthday just incase some of you forgot ;) haha. Anyways, it’s been a busy time here down here in Cape Town. The last week was filled with final papers for my two classes, History of South Africa and Anthropology for Christian Life. We also had two presentations due for each class. So that is what I have been focusing a lot of my time on instead of having fun! Haha just kidding I am still having a great time.
So here are the fun things! Everyday I wake up to my dog outside the house howling at the Muslim prayer at 4:30 AM! I sleep the next few hours until I get awaken by the boys; they come into the room with grill cheese sandwiches, yogurt and cereal! Brian has my tea down perfect, just the way I like it! ☺ It makes my mornings great. The last week we had no school due to our papers and presentations. So on my time off I am either in Cape Town’s city, doing something crazy like swimming with sharks or petting cheetah’s, or kicking the soccer ball around with Brian and the neighborhood kids. Its quite fun! (Dad you would be stoked how much I am picking up my old soccer skills).
Tonight Brian, Chelsea, Tyler, and I took our home stay parents out for a dinner. We ate at this amazing Ethiopian place, and it was an amazing experience. I been eating at REALLY amazing restaurants lately. The other day I ate at this place called MAYO and it was all African style buffets, and I had antelope and Ostrich, the antelope was GREAT, but I was not a huge fan of the ostrich. I also ate at this Mediterranean place, where we sat on the floor with pillows and belly dancers everywhere. It was a blast!! Such good food, and I have only been sick twice, but its because I don’t drink enough water here I believe. I am still sunburn; I doubt it will ever go away. So Shark swimming was sweet, although my group did not get to see any sharks when we were in the cage, it was still amazing because I saw three great whites about 5 feet away from me when I was on the boat, and it grabbed the large tuna head we had on board! I saw all its teeth and the shark was about 4 meters long, times that by 3 and it means the shark was around 12 feet long! It was awesome. When I was eating at MAYO the other night we could go pet cheetahs and that was really fun! The place was beautiful, we ate in a tree house basically and the people who worked there painted our faces.
I have fallen in love with a singer named Ryan Adams, he is my favorite thing ever, I thought Id share since I am listening to him now. Its about midnight here, and I am up while everyone is sleeping. Go figure the insomniac is not tired. Tomorrow looks like the beach since I am done with my homework. Which means I should go to bed early to get up and call Mandy around 9.
Okay, I’m rambling. We leave Cape Town on Friday around 5:30 AM. Tomorrow night Thursday, we are having a BBQ or known as a Brie here. All of our families and us from the school are invited and I’m so excited it should be fun. I’m sad to leave Cape Town and the family I have been living with! They have been amazing! I LOVE them. They will be very much missed! But then we are on the Road for 5 days traveling up to Durban area, or kwazulu land! This is where I will be the reminder of the time for the school. We are staying at the South African enterprise place near the school. I am excited I heard its really down to earth and low key, which is something I am craving right now.
I arrived in Pietermarzburg!!! (NEW UPDATE)
Hello Everyone! So I am attaching a new update to the last e-mail I never got to send out! Okay so we had a long 5-day road trip up to our new place! THIS PLACE IS BEAUTIFUL HOLY CRAP!!! I went on a run today (yes me), and it was amazing then we went exploring about, which was RAD. There is jungle ness everywhere and SO MANY MONKEYS!!! Anyways Classes started today, and I am so looking forward to it because it’s all Christian classes, which I am stoked on! Besides that over the long road trip, I turned 20!! Yes hello I am no child anymore, well maybe at heart ;)! It was a FUN birthday! And get this, It rains about 3 times a year at the place we are at in Afrika, and back in cali it rains EVERY YEAR on my birthday so I was telling people how sad it will be that I wont have rain on my birthday this year…well GUESS WHAT! It rained on my birthday! Crazy!! Thunder and lighting, which is my favorite! My friend Mandy greeted me in the morning screaming KRUSTY (nickname she calls me) ITS YOUR BIRTHDAY AND ITS RAINING!!! Then everyone sung to me! We then went to the ostrich farm where I got a double kiss from a GIRL ostrich! I was lucky ;) haha I also got to hold a baby ostrich ( FREAKIN CUTE!!!) and EVERYONE told me to name it after me so I did, its name was “Krusty Fletcher” I’m not sure where Fletcher came from but Brian insisted that it would be Fletcher as well! We could not ride the ostriches because it was raining and well they cant balance and run in the rain! But we got to go to this place to see them all run around and the leader of the farm asked me to come up front so I did! He then told EVERYONE I was going to get to ride one since it was my birthday! So I got on the ostrich and everyone was cracking up! Well then the bird went freaking nuts and ran backwards without me fully on it, and fell to the ground and I screamed and I couldn’t get up and it jutted me and ran across my foot! I was SO SCARED! Then the guy brought over a NEW one, and I got on its back and I went for a ride, it’s SO funny. A lot of people got it on video so HOPEFULLY it will be up on YOUTUBE soon and you all can watch it. We then stopped in Port Elizabeth and there was HUGE storm there! It cleared up and my girls took me out to a nice restaurant and we ate on the beach harbor! They also paid for me! It was so sweet. Okay now here is the crazy part…we got a cake and went to the beach and ate it in our underwear!! Haha okay, dad and all you church kids you might think im nuts but I am !!! and Im in afrika! Why Not?? Haha. We also did some other silly stuff, but we made a packed, and its only between us!! ( well alie don’t worry I will tell you! Oh and yes bekah and Emily and allie I will tell you too! And well all you girls ill tell you hahah)! OKAY! Don’t think I drank, I didn’t I don’t do that crap! Plus im not 21! OKAY now that we got that cleared up, I HAD an amazing birthday! So now I am in Pietermarzburg where the Internet sucks once again! I finally am sleeping on a bed and I have an amazing roomie! Her name is mikaela and she is from Minnesota! And she is a hippy and one cool girl! I LOVE HER! Okay so I am in Mandy’s room at the moment and she wants me to tell you all this story: so today I was in class (me kristy), and Regge (our instructor) we just finishing up talking when I scooted out my chair and felt myself slowly fall backwards with my feet in the air! Mandy started to crap up because I looked at her the whole time with a scarred look on my face and soon enough the whole classroom was cracking up! I could not get up, and when my friend Brian helped me up he saw that the chair had been WELDED together, not screwed, and he had NO IDEA how I broke the chair! So yes it’s been a joke that I am overly fat and break chairs all day! I also have been having BAD diarrhea all day, and its been part of my life this whole trip. I am just the joke of the trip around here. Oh well, that’s my life. So Now I must finish this LAME SILLY e-mail up because I have over 250 pages to read by tomorrow, and I have not started, but you cant blame me because I just started class today!!! IT’S INTENSE!! I love you all and I miss you all. I hope you enjoyed my birthday stories! <3 I will e-mail soon enough about more interesting fun things, but I HAVE NO TIME NOW, and the Internet SUCKS ONCE AGAIN! MISS YOU ALL VERY VERY MUCH!!! SEE YOU IN LIKE 2 MONTHS or something. <33
p.s. happy single awareness day tomorrow ( feb. 14), oh and to all you happy couples…I hope your day is grand. I think the 9 boys are doing something for us 30 girls tomorrow haha we will see. I’m sure it will be a story!
Now for the Fourth Letter:
Hello Family and Friends,
Oh it has been a while since I last wrote an e-mail, I
am so sorry. Life has been very crazy at the moment
over here in south africa at the "AE" center. Although
its been a hot summer, and very beautiful in the days,
it rains everynight! Which I wont complain about
because it puts me to sleep. Let me update you on some
crazy things!
-We have many monkey here at the African Enterprise.
We nickednamed a few of them, baby, one eye ( he has
one eye), blue balls ( you know why ), he is the
leader, well anyways, as you all know I have the best
of luck, and my room got broken into by all of them. I
kicked them out of course but they took all my food,
and pooped on my computer. haha, I guess thats monkeys
for you. One Eye, is a very mean monkey, he is bitter
i am guessing. He likes to bang on my windows and
screetch at me. I'm not sure why. Maybe he likes me.
-I went to the doctors again!! well once was for a
huge bug bite that was infected and was bigger then a
golf ball. I got medicane and now its okay! :) But
just yesterday I woke up with a HUGE lump on the right
side by my pelvic (or private area haha). I was taken
to the ER, because people thought it could be a
hemroid, sist, or my appendics. ( I know i can't spell
these big terms). As you all know, or might guess, the
doctors are not like the doctors back home. I was
checked, but they gave me anti-biotics, and said it is
an infection from a bug bite...They searched my whole
body and did not find a bug bite or a tick. So I'm not
sure if i trust their advice. Don't worry Dad, I am
watching it, if it turns out to not go away from the
medicane and the anti-flamatory pills, I will go back.
In the last 24 hours it has gotten bigger. There is no
bite on it, its inside under my skin. So it could be
something. Who knows at this point. All you believers
out there should PRAY haha.
-I am UNDER PRESSURE ( like the song), about school.
You all think school is hard, oh and it is. But when
you have intense classes that are only 6 weeks long,
its pretty NUTS. I have two 12 page papers due monday,
2 mid-terms, 2 reserach papers, and a seminar
presantation, all due on Monday, its thursday, and I
am just now doing the research. I wont have a life for
the next couple of days. And classes just started two
weeks ago. Meaning I have only had class twice!! and
All these things are due! Crazy right??? Plus my two
classes are theology and the christian life, and Life
and Teachings of Jesus, although I am learning a lot
about something I LOVE, I feel like I may die. I'm
taking the two hardest classes here, which I did not
know.
- Besdies that, I am learning some Zulu in my Zulu
class! Which I get no credit for, so sometimes I am
annoyed I have to go. But it came in handy yesterday.
I met an african woman who needed prayer about a Job.
We communicated as best as we could in Zulu and
English. It was pretty rad.
-I went to the movies for the first time the other
night, it was AMAZING. I have not been to a movie in
quite some time. I saw the bucket list. I recommend
seeing it. It is a GREAT movie. I cried and paniced at
the end, it was so sad, but so good. GO SEE IT PEOPLE.
- My Bank at home sucks, and keeps telling me my cards
are denied. So when I went to the doctors the other
day, I had to have Reg ( the head derector of this
place/my teacher), pay for everything. So Screw banks
when you are not at home.
- Besides all that stuff, i am loving life here. I am
surrounded by beauty. I am in the middle of the
freakin Jungle, forest what ever. I try and go running
to keep in shape ( all the carbs are making me gain
weight!!), and when I go running I see Zebra, its
pretty sweet!
- I wake up every morning now at 6:30, go into the
prayer chapel, and journal. I LOVE DOING IT. it makes
my mornings ten times better! Plus its really the only
alone time i get around here, everyone on my team is
friendly and wonderful that I can't stop hanging out.
- Days here are slow. If I don't have class, I sit
under a tree and read, go to the water hole and slide
down the rocks ( they are like water slides), play
soccer in the grass, or nap. I do homework too, don't
worry. But a day feels like 3. Last weekend we got a
bus, and it took us into Durban. We went to UShaka
which is a waterslide/marineworld park! I had a blast!
I went down every waterslide, and because it was Bob
Marley's birthday, they had Reggie Music playing from
a live band! I got up and danced, it was AMAZING. I'm
not a pot head so do't worry i didnt smoke a joint
haha. I never would.
-This weekend nothing is planned, which is good
because I have to study hard for all this stuff coming
up on monday! Oh and I am so excited its leap year/ear
this year! its going to ROCK. Februray is the best
month, so you can't go wrong.
- I am making a ton of friends still. I mean we have
all been friends, but the relationships are changing,
we are all growing closer and closer and becoming like
sisters and brothers. I am in love with everyone here.
=)
-The food at this place is kinda gross, but i'll suck
it up and deal. But i am starting to get real cravings
for in-and-out, chipotle, and home cooked good meals.
So someone better make me some food when I get home.
-Well I hope you found this letter intertaining. I am
sorry I slack on writing, because when I do, these
letters tend to be very long. But I have to let you
know that I am alive and doing well.
-p.s. mom if you get this, I need you to do my FASFA (
for the scholarship stuff money stuff haha), because
its due soon, and I would do it, but I don't have my
tax returns. Thanks!!!
**Okay I must go now. well i don't really have to go,
but I do not have a lot left to say! I love you all
very much, and I am starting to dream about home!! AHH
I have like 7 weeks or so left, I think! I may be
wrong haha! So I hope to hear from you all soon, or
see you when I get back. You all are so loved!!! <3 Kristy