One Week

It's officially one week till I land in Senegal. Which means I'm trying to figure out how to condense my whole life into 80lbs of luggage. Right now everything is spread out all over the family room, I keep "reorganizing" everything and adding more to the piles...ie procrastinating the actual packing of the bags. I've also started trying on all my clothes again to make sure they were Senegal appropriate. My mom and I decided I'm going for the stylish-church-marm look, needless to say I'll be super cute. I've also bought the essential food items...Garlic powder, seasoning salt, cayenne pepper,blue raspberry kool-aid, ramen noodles, and velveeta shells and cheese (this was obviously the most important). I'm also really hoping that I have enough room to fit a badminton set that I've been eyeing. I may just have to mail it to myself along with a few other games.
It's hard to believe I'll actually be there in a week. It probably won't hit me till I'm actually living with my host family. I'm definitely nervous about my host family, but I'm sure I'll really like them. I'm secretly hoping that there is a little kid or two. They are just so cute and will probably be the only person on my level language wise. I'm also super excited to meet my fellow PCVs. Of course we're all already facebook friends, but I'm excited to meet everyone in person. These people will become like family over the next two years and just excited to see what everyone is like. I kinda feel like I'm going off to summer camp, which ties back in to it not hitting me till I'm there.
On another note Mikayla, my 13 year old sister, is pretty excited to be inheriting a bunch of the clothes, jewelry and makeup I'm leaving behind. Best hand-me-downs ever.