It's not real yet

It's funny how right before you leave for something big your senses kind of deaden and your not even excited. You are though because it is all you think about; stepping off the plane and the heat that smothers your concentration as you fill out the paperwork. I can feel the excitment that quicken my heart because I know that just on the other side of the soldiers who guard the exit is Manamou!
But that still hasn't really hit me, I haven't even packed and I leave next tuesday! Tomorrow I'll go back up to Issaquah.
I should make a list.
pick up check at PCC on friday and deposit money
pack! and try to think what i'm forgetting
pack the bag of cuado's for Manamou's family
what am i missing
oh yeah, clean my room and my car and everything else!!!

a message for my rightfully concerned parents

You all have every right to be worried. I am going to a far away place that isn't that scary to me anymore but for you guys with only the intermittant reports of parasites and infection and I'vebeeninbedforaweek you have every right to be worried. And I am in love with a person who you don't know who is from a culture that right now you are feeling is sooo soo far from our own. In a way you are right but at the same time, human beings have so much in common. We all fall in love, we all have mothers and fathers, we all need to eat good food and drink good water. You might be suprised at how far those simple things go in creating huge connections.
I know that when you meet Manamou you won't have any doubts. I don't. I feel that this is an opportunity created by God because I certainly would not and could not have come up with such I far flung sketchy crazy plan.
I want you to know that I care about your opinions and whether you think this is a good decision. I need you all to be loving me and supporting me, because without you guys I couldn't do any of this crazy stuff.
I love you all so much for letting me be my crazy little self,
Jessy

Visa, ticket, a little bit of cash

and faith are the things I have to see me through the next couple of months. I am so happy/exstatic/excited that I am going back to Guinee, the only thing missing right now is starting of the K1 (fiance) visa process and a new digital camera. I might have to put the lawyer fee on my credit card. but i don't like credit cards no matter how useful they can be! But I need to start the K1 visa process now so I might put it on my card tomorrow morning, yuck. Anybody want to make a donations to the poor Jessy fund? Dad let me sell his old truck and that has me 400 ahead plus my most recent check and I am hovering at about 1000 dollars. Byron needs to hire me for 200 blocks, that is a third of the lawyer fee. What else can I do for some bandaid cash?
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.... any ideas?
Look how fantastic he is? Who wouldn't spend thousands of dollars to hang out with him?

Global Daughter's Project

My sister is in Kathmandu, Nepal right now volunteering with Global Daughters Project. I have also contributed by editing the blog she is posting on! Check it out at www.angelfire.com/journal2/globaldaughters
This program is the brain child of a friend of mine in Crested Butte, Colorado, Lisa Gindy. Lisa launched the Global Daughters Project in a effort to increase opportunities available to Himalayan woman. The program, as you will see in the blog, is taking awesome mountain women from the states and brings them to Nepal to educate female guides there on wilderness first aid, rock climbing safety, and computer literacy skills.
Cheers to the Global Daughters Family!