It really happened!

I graduated! After all this time...what a relief. I can hardly believe it. I intend to:

Ants in my pants.

I have become one-track minded. Just send me the invitation, people!!

On a more positive note, I am graduating on Saturday. I do have a final exam due Thursday night...which means I'll get to work on it Thursday evening. Hard work pays off eventually, but procrastination pays off now.

Sent!

I mailed in my medical reports on Thursday. Now comes the waiting. As they say, Peace Corps is an exercise in patience from the very beginning. If everything is fine I should have my invitation by mid-July...and wow, that is really far away from now.

Now I am going to do something that I really should not do. I'm posting pictures of countries to where I might be going.

Above: MACEDONIA!! The picturesque church of St. John the Theologian–Kaneo, built in the 13th century, perches on the rocks above placid Ohrid Lake. The border between Macedonia and Albania runs through the lake, which has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Courtesy of National Geographic.com)

Above: UKRAINE!! All I know is that this is a church, sorry. But I love churches. That is one of the big reasons I'm happy to have been nominated for Eastern Europe...lots of churches. Religion has played an enormous role in the world's history, which makes churches and other sacred buildings the very cornerstones of history itself. Both Macedonia and Ukraine have lots of churches! Yay! (I said church/churches five times in that paragraph, in case you were wondering.)