Ok, so I have had a chance to get some of the handwritten journal entries into electronic form on my computer, so here are the first three days' entries. I apologize for the wait, but I am trying really hard to get the rest typed up so I can start posting them when they actually happen as opposed to weeks late! I guess this 's what happens when the laptop battery dies! Here's the blog entry from April 3, the day I left the States. Thursday, April 3, 2008 I...

Hello!!! I'm sorry it has been so long since I wrote in here, but I was up in Than Gaon, a remote village up in the Himalayan foothills, where we had no internet. (We didn't even have power for the first 3 days!) Anyway, I just wanted to say that because there was no power, I only had the chance to type up my daily journal entries for a couple days before my computer battery died, and I couldn't recharge it. So, I have a lot of typing to do to transfer my han...

Monday, March 24, 2008 I'm in Palm Springs for spring break - one last week and a half with my family before I leave for India .While this spring break vacation and the upcoming India experience are both trips of a sort, they are going to be very, very different from each other.I'll be going from this So-Cal luxury retreat to the so-called surreal retreat that I've heard the Northern Himalayan region of India can be.I'm actually very excited to see the bea...

Well, I figured out how to use my own pictures to supplement each blog entry, so now there's an actual picture from Corvallis for this one. :-) The past couple days I did a "trial run" with my malaria prophylaxis to see if I showed any of the bad side effects that some people get while on Doxycycline, and I think I made it through pretty well. No complications that I could tell! This whole trip is starting to seem pretty real now that I have done a...

Hey, I got my travel blog started! I figured it's getting closer and closer to the time I head out, so I should get this set up and running so everyone can see how it works. I'm getting pretty excited for my trip, but I'm getting sad to say goodbye to everyone here. Three months is going to be a long time, but I'm glad I get to give you all updates on this lovely blog! haha Ok, well it's dinner time here at the lovely Chi Omega house, so I must go... ...on...