I Can't Believe I'm Doing This

That's right: blogging. I always told myself that I would never have my own blog. But, here I am.

Most of you are aware that I am leaving for Kazakhstan this coming week. For those of you that aren't....surprise! I head up to D.C. tomorrow (Sunday) for the three-day staging/pre-departure event, and we fly to Almaty on Wednesday. Something tells me that I probably won't be totally sure what I've gotten myself into until I get there, but at the same time I am pretty anxious to get going with it. And I just hope that my lasting image of America does not continue to be the movie Superbad, which truly lived up to its name last night (though to be fair, most everyone else in the theater seemed to like it).

I look forward to keeping all (both) of you (Mom and Dad) updated on what I am doing while I am in Kazakhstan, and I appreciate all the well-wishes that I've gotten so far. Keep an eye out for another entry sometime in the coming days or weeks, depending on my access to the internet.