"I Bless the Rains Down in Africa"-Toto

Alright folks! We are making progress! I just received my nomination letter. I have been nominated for Sub-Saharan Africa in the Secondary Education Science Teaching Program and will be leaving June 2013 (tentatively). Whew! Let the research begin!

I have found out that there are approximately 27 countries that have open Peace Corps programs and approximately 80 languages are spoken amongst those countries! Yikes! It's so exhilarating to think this time next year I will overseas on a new adventure. Bring it on and it's on like donkey kong! I am still in that whole ignorant stage but I am totally eager to learn and prepare myself as much as possible. Next step = medical mumbo jumbo (I will spare you the details because the list is long and tedious!).

In other news, things at the Boys & Girls Club are going great. We are getting ready to finish up our summer camp and then head back into after school programs. My Mad Science Thursdays have been going great and the kids get pretty excited to see what I have up my sleeve. We released our first edition of our Ninja News Newsletter. Photos and stories were taken and written by myself and a group of club members. I am so proud of their enthusiasm and hard work. We will be releasing our next edition August 3rd. This edition will wrap up our summer camp program. I plan on continuing the newsletter into the school year.

I have started my theme song playlist and on it so far:

Africa by Toto
Hakuna Matata by Timon, Pumba and Simba
I Like to Move It Move It by King Julian

More is yet to come!

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." Mae West

Here We Go...

Hey folks! I just had a great weekend! My dad, grandparents, aunt, uncle and cousins flew out. My aunt graduated with her doctorate so we went to her graduation and celebrated. We are all so proud of her! It is such a great accomplishment! Go Dr. Haag!!!!

I have to tell you all about this dream I had over the weekend. I will do my best to recount all the I remember. Ok so here it goes...I remember walking out of a plane with my Peace Corps recruiter. We were on an island of some sort. I remember seeing a beach and another island close by. Now this other island is what stood out most. There were mountains but behind these mountains were big skyscrapers. Weird, I know. I remember my recruiter telling me to go get to know the people and just left me on the island. Then I woke up I think because that is about all I remember. At work on Monday I was telling a friend about it and how weird it would be to hear from my recruiter soon. Surprise!!!!!! I was officially nominated on July 2nd. How crazy is that? So now, if any of you psych people want to analyze my dream, by all means, go ahead and get back to me!

Now the fun begins! I have to go through all these medical tests and what not. I am hoping to hear about a tentative placement as well. I will let you know when I find that out.

This is a short one but I hope to update more frequently now that some progress has been made!

"All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose." Brian Tracy