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Welcome to 2009!
Now that the champagne has worn off and I've stopped crying after saying good bye to Ben, I figured it would be an appropriate time to update everyone on my break.
I spent three wonderful days in Oshkosh with Ben and his families. On Christmas Day, we tearfully said good bye to each other at the Appleton airport as he left for Tanzania, Africa. Besides a quick e-mail when he got there, he called me briefly a few days ago to update me on everything. We talked for a mere 2 minutes and he said he held a 5-day-old baby (I believe it was 5 days) and gave out all of the crayon shaped toothbrushes to children in the villages they have been visiting. He called again this morning and we talked for 5 minutes, which was longer but didn't feel like it. His first clinic day was today and he said he felt like he was a real doctor. :)
I stopped at my Aunt Diane's just outside of Green Bay for VanGompel christmas after leaving Ben and the airport and then headed to my Dad's new house in Edgar, Wis. just outside of Wausau. Some of my step mom's family came over and we had dinner and opened presents. After spending the weekend there, I drove to Minnesota with my Nanny and Poppy to visit my Aunt Jen's family. We met their foreign exchange student, Mareike, from Germany, went to the British Ad Awards and celebrated my cousin, Derek's, 21st birthday.
Derek and his friend, Jen, joined Danielle, Tommy and I for New Year's Eve in Madison. Chelsea, Liz, Tay, Nikki and Laura all made the trip down. The night, as always, left us with a plethora of ridiculous memories that I'm sure we will laugh about for the rest of our lives.
Now, I'm back in Marshfield. I will be here for a little over a week and then I'm headed to Spain. So the next week will be filled with packing, decisions about what to pack and maybe even repacking after realizing I'm over the weight limit.
Until I arrive... all my best.
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