The best part of my day was spending time with my wonderful cousin, Nazy. She helped me make a game plan for making my parents (ehm, father) choose a deadline to finally accept that I will be going to Ethiopia in the fall. I mean, we need to get the plane ticket and vaccines and I cannot just wait around to hear back from a med school - even though that is what Dad wants to do. With some tedious (only because some schools have terrible websites) research, we found the relative start dates of each institution I might possibly go to and decided that August 1 is a good deadline. That leaves only a few weeks! What a relief!
Nazy also showed me her pictures from Ethiopia when she visited in 2006. Lots of pictures of Addis Ababa, One Planet, and the hospital she visited. Medicine still amazes me. I am looking forward to being a physician someday. Just going to throw that out there.
While I was looking through her pictures again, Nazy sneakily put a silver ribbon on the present she got me (and yes, I was completely oblivious). A book!!! Not just any book: Arising, A Year of Service Handbook for Volunteers by her good friend, Denali Knight Weiler. Pretty much the best present ever. I wish I didn't have papers to write, and I already started Eat, Pray, Love that Emily recommended...there are not enough hours in the day! After July 29 my goals are: review Ruhi Books 1 and 2, be tutored in Book 3, read Arising, get my vaccines and medications, create the perfect packing list, and everything related to preparing for Ethiopia.
After going to bed, the beautiful soul I love to call my cousin came back because she remembered she has a laptop she wants me to have. It's an old laptop that is locked and needs the harddrive reformatted, which of course my dad can take care of, and it will hopefully be of service in Ethiopia. Nazy is the best!!!
I am very grateful to have so many wonderful people in my life who are supportive of goals and dreams! Believe me, I am thanking God every day.
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