Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Invited!!

Well, I talked to my PO today and she told me she decided to invite me for December!!! I am on a rollercoaster of emotions right now. I have a MILLION things I need to do. First and foremost, I need to wait for my invitation packet to come via FedEx (hopefully in the next couple of days!), review it, and then decide if I want to accept my invitation.

Barring any major hang-ups, I plan to accept. It is CRAZY to say and CRAZY to think, but I want to do it and I know it will be amazing.

The invitation should be to do Agroforestry in Guinea, staging December 1, but obviously all of that is subject to change until I have the packet in my hand. I say packet, but I've heard it's a huge blue binder.

From the little research I have done, it seems like your primary project is to plant 5000 trees in your 2 years to combat deforestation, but other projects are always up to you, like gardens, nutrition classes, millet grinders, crop diversification, etc... I can deal with planting 5000 trees.

It's really happening now and I can hardly believe it. Can't wait to have that big blue binder in my hands.

2 comments:

Jenna said...

Congrats!!! I've been following your story for a while now--ESPECIALLY after you got passed up for Niger. I hope you get it ASAP, I bet you will today or tomorrow. In the mean time, check out this cute video of Travis receiving his invite!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2il8sI8k7Uc

So excited for you!!

Jenna said...

Congrats!!! I've been following your story for a while now--ESPECIALLY after you got passed up for Niger. I hope you get it ASAP, I bet you will today or tomorrow. In the mean time, check out this cute video of Travis receiving his invite!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2il8sI8k7Uc

So excited for you!!