Less than 2 weeks left!

We've been busy packing things up, giving stuff away, making arrangements to travel, and of course a little training too!

We sent our weapons yesterday which was the toughest task and now we're almost ready. Just one more box to pack and send a few days before we go. I've been having trouble sleeping this week. I just have so much to look forward to! I don't feel nervous about leaving here, I'm ready, but there's excitement and just a lot of busy thoughts. Some of my classmates have found it hard to stay motivated for training but for me, it's a welcome distraction and there's really not much else to do around here anyway. I still get a bit bored sometimes, it feels like I'm just waiting for September 1st, but I just train harder and try to keep busy in the free time.

It feels so good to be letting go of things (material and immaterial) that I'm actually really enjoying the process of preparation. I've realized that I'm a lot like my mom, she loves to organize, and purge once in a while. I finally get it mom!

I've been doing the Pimsleur Thai language audio course, in fact I'm almost half finished. It's 30 lessons total and I'm about to do lesson 15. It's really interesting, but very challenging. Thai is another tonal language, like mandarin, but with more tones and some sounds that are really quite foreign to me. I don't think I'll really be able to say much after I finish the course but I also wouldn't want to be learning any faster than I am, it's tough enough as it is. It is really fun learning a new language though, besides Chinese, I am so sick of Chinese. Sick of Chinese and sick of China! I'm sure after being home for a while I'll get over it, hopefully anyway. I haven't been studying my classical Chinese at all lately, I think I'll wait until I'm home and have fonder feelings about this place. It would also be nice to take an actual class, if there's one available, I've just been learning on my own all these years but I think learning some new methods would be really helpful at this point.

It's rained and cooled off quite a bit so we're all much happier and sleeping better. I have my fingers crossed that it'll stay cool at least for another few days.

Less than 4 weeks!