The day before take-off...

Alright, so tomorrow I'm finally leaving for Chile. I've spent the last three weeks saying goodbye to everyone, and now it's FINALLY time to leave. All of the goodbye parties and dinners were awesome...thank you everyone :) I'm going to miss everyone soooo much while I'm gone, but luckily I know we'll all have an awesome time together when I get back! I think I'm finally packed and ready to go, although I have no idea how I'm going to make it through the airport with all of my luggage...right now I fall over every time I put on my backpack, so tomorrow should be really interesting. I've been e-mailing my host family for the past few weeks. I'll be living with the Diaz-Aguirre family: Jeannie, Patricio, Felipe, and Raimundo. My new little "brothers" are 10 and 7, and they are absolutely adorable and I'm so excited to finally meet them. My host mom says that they talk about me every day, and they're planning my birthday party already...hahaha. My first week in Chile I'll be staying in a hotel with all American students, and they're going to take us out on excursions around Chile. I have no idea what we'll be doing, but it involves some sort of hiking on mountains so that should be interesting to see my try to survive that...
I have no idea how often I'll be able to get to a computer or phone while I'm down there, so be patient with me. I know I promised a lot of you guys pictures and everything, and I swear I'll do my best to post them for you. So, anyways, once again thanks to everyone for all of the free dinners and all of the pictures everyone put together for me! I'm gonna miss you all so much! I'll be back July 15th...it's not too far away...keep in touch!!! I want to hear everything that's going on!!! E-mail me as much as you want, I'm going to want to read some English every now and then :)
Goodbye and I'll see you all in July!!!