those pesky details...

Hello everyone :)
It's been a frightfully long time since I've written in any sort of online journal. I gave up on it awhile back because I couldn't get past feeling like I was writing for an audience. But, here's another try! So...thing's around here have been going well. We're preparing ourselves for outreach, we'll be leaving pretty soon. agggh it's crazy. Last night we had our outreach meeting, and we were required to fill out 3 identical forms to aquire our visa. Hehe, it sound simple, right? well...not quite. Once we realized we needed to write in all caps, and some of the questions were translated wrong, most of us needed new copies. It took quite alot longer than any of us realised it would...we were all a bit crazy by the end. So, today we took a trip into town to get our pictures taken for our visas. Here's something I never realized about other countries: you're not allowed to smile in photos used for official documents. Amoung all the students here, I'm the only one smiling in their passport photo. Hmmm. So today, when I went in to take my picture, the guy took one and showed it to me. I was like, "yeah that's fine." So I started to walk out, when I realized I was smiling in my picture. hehe, ooops. So, we had to do it over, and I spent the whole time concentrating on not smiling. The picture looks pretty horrible, because all the muscles in my face are trying to do anything but smile....I guess you could say I ended up looking somewhat constipated. ah well....
The rest of the afternoon we spent at wal-mart buying gear and such. It's funny how exciting a trip to wal-mart is to me now. Our base in very much in the country. We don't get out much!
Anyway...I best be going. Our school is having a "vintage" style dinner on friday to celebrate the end of our lecture phase. I'm making drawings/posters of vintage fashion etc for the decor. It's so FUN. I always loved doing "fashion illustration," it's cool that it can actually be used for something :) But, all that to say that I need to go work on them.
Love you all! A plus tard.
~Abby