First Entry

Hello to all!! This is my first attempt at trying to maintain a blog page and to be quite honest, I don't know how well it is going to hold up. I used to hate writing "journals" for class assignments. As you all may or may not know, I will be departing for the Peace Corps on August 3rd. I will be participating in the Business Advising program. There are 38 other volunteers that are going along with myself. We are going to be heading to Philly first for a "staging" event. It is a 3 day orientation. After the staging, I fly off to Sofia, Bulgaria for 3 months of Pre-Service Training. This includes living with a host family, intense language classes, and technical training. Our final site location is not known until after the 3 month PST.

Only one week of work left and less then two weeks before I depart for Bulgaria. I am getting pretty excited about the upcoming departure. This past weekend was my 24th Birthday. One year closer to the quarter of a century mark. I can believe that I have to stretch before I play any sports now. I am an old man. Anyways, one of my roommates, Pete Costa, is also making a move away from home. He recently took a job in San Fran as a Urban Planner. He is going to be moving in mid-August. With that in mind, my roommates and I decided to have a joint going away party/b-day party on Saturday. I won't go into too many details (this is a family show), but in short it was a huge success. It was good to see so many people wish us luck and send us off.

Things at work are starting to wind down. My territory has been split between two other AEs and my renewals are pretty much taking care of. I have been running around making my final visits to agents. I am kind of bummed out about leaving work because of the job, people, and coworkers, but I am ready to start a new chapter in my life and super pumped to be joining the Peace Corps.

Well Hope that wasn't too much. Hopefully I will get the hang of this. 11 day until I leave.

Til next time, Stay classy Chicago.