While I was taxing down the runway on my first flight I was overcome with a sense of realization. Many thoughts were hitting me hard in the chest that previously only floated by. Here are a few of those thoughts...

I have left my home in Florida. I am moving (with only 2 suitcases of stuff) to a country that barely exists to me. I know it is there in the middle of a great ocean, but until I see it, I will not be able to believe it. I find though, that the closer I get to it the more real it becomes.

I am not in college any more. I am not a student any more (not in the traditional meaning of the word anyways). I am flying to my future! I am in the process of changing my life path! I am achieving my dreams!! This is what i was most overwhelmed by, the thought that I am moving very quickly toward something that has only been thoughts and far far far off dreams. It is difficult to grasp the reality of dreams turning into life events. My personal history! I feel that I have no idea how I got here! Was this all my doing? It is seriously hard to understand the fact that i am in the midst of becoming a Peace Corps Volunteer!! Complete disbelieve ravaged me in those moments of take-off and I am having a hard time wrapping my head around it!

This proves to me that there is a higher power guiding me. holding my hand and leading the way. I know I was the one that did this, but at the moment I truly feel that none of it was my doing. I could not have made something so incredible happen without the hand of God Guiding my feet. I am eternally grateful for my life and the powers that show me the way.

Now, I am off to the beach Honolulu for a little while before our big flight tomorrow!!! EEK! I cannot wait!

Where am I?

For those of you who were like me and didn't know where Micronesia was...

The island I will be on for the first 3 months...

For the first 3 months I will be on Pohnpei in the city of Kolonia for training. Here is a website about the area that I will be!

http://www.janeresture.com/fedmic/pohnpei.htm