Holy cow! Can it be coming this soon? I am just starting to realize that my teammates and I will be boarding our beloved KLM flight to Amsterdam en route to Estonia in less than 48 hours. Wow.
Some great news! I became fully funded for the trip as of today!!! Praise God! Rich has asked that we target $2,100 to help support the band, I'm at $2K right now (which is supporting me) so any additional checks I get will go toward Kristan and co. (as well as picking up for my teammates... the funds donated to the trip officially go into a pool in which each of us is responsible for raising a certain amount as our share... that's kind of how it works).
I am about half packed... I consider myself a professional packer (not to be confused with the Green Bay Packers) because of my traveling for work. However, seeing as though I will be in Tartu for about a week and a half and will be experiencing somewhat of a climate change (going from sweating mid-90's to highs in the low 60's/lows in the 40's), packing is a little more of a challenge than it would be for a business trip. Additionally, part of my luggage will be dedicated to stowing give-a-ways (150 t-shirts, 50 flash drives (I think), a few iPods, etc.).
... speaking of give-a-ways, I met up with Rich this evening to give him the letter bags that many of you that came to my party contributed to... we were brainstorming how to best maximize them, including trickling notes of encouragement to team members during the week. We were out at Target getting supplies and American-style t-shirts to give out during the competitions. I got a set of 3 Spider Man and 3 Green Lantern "super hero" shirts there (for those of you that don't know, Green Lantern is on SuperFriends and he's not really all that Super... Superman is always bailing him out and Jerry Seinfeld isn't really all that fond of him either... but it is a cool shirt). I hope the students that I give them out to as gifts like them.
Ok... I gots to get back to either retiring for the night (sleep good, me like) or packing. We'll see, it's getting late.
chris <><
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