One Week to Go

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Today I posted on my blog for the first time. I had written my first entry last week but couldn’t figure out the blog process. I am doing a blog for several reasons. First; I realize many of you reading this will not get to New Zealand. Could it be the $1500+ airfare or the 22 hours it takes to get there? Both can be “deal breakers.” Either way, this can be your virtual New Zealand experience. Second, I have thought a blog with students in a classroom could be a fun way to get them to writing and responding to others writing. So you are my guinea pigs as I try to maneuver my way around a blog, adding pictures as well.

We leave in a week and we are getting down to the “nitty-gritty.” Jack just finished up his class Monday and traveled on business yesterday. He is home madly doing taxes. I am “making a list and checking it twice:” pick up the lawnmower tire that always goes flat, get five months of dog food, get someone to fix the fireplace that just started acting up, take that last group of clothes to the dry cleaners hoping they can get them done by next Tuesday, arranging five months of prescriptions, etc. We set out the suitcases this morning to add as we think about things. I will continually remind myself that we are not going to a third-world-country. I’m sure I can get many things in New Zealand. We are allotted two fifty-pound bags. How do those missionaries do it? Well, I’m off.

Tah Tah

Robynn