To-Do before Staging List!

As of today I have about 6 weeks left until Staging! Hopefully in the next couple weeks I’ll be getting my staging details so I’ll have some more precise information about when and where and all that jazz. So if you follow my blog or if this is your first time reading, the last few posts I have talked about things I am going to miss about MD and the United States while I am away in Paraguay. Well going along with that theme today I’m going to tell you all the things I want to/need to/am going to do before I leave. 

In no particular order:

NYE in downtown Baltimore

Eat at Olive Garden, Cheeburger Cheeburger, Sonic, Mi Casita, Joss (sushi) and maybe Cheeburger again 

Go Ice skating

Go Snowboarding

Figure out my loan deferment crap

Going Away Party – Jan 14^th

Kara comes to visit Jan 12^th – 15^th

 

Last Big Night going out/Going Away Party with my ALL my friends (except Kara) in Baltimore – Jan 21^st

Super Bowl Party

See Sherlock Holmes and Girl With the Dragon Tattoo in the theaters

Get a pedicure

Go Bowling

Play Tennis

Put as many movies and TV shows as I can on my external hard drive

Finish my last day of work – Jan 24^th

 

Go to a Caps game

Buy luggage

Spend a day doing nothing with Melissa :)

PACK.

Oh The Things I Will Miss ... Part Three

So the next installment of the things I will miss while in the Peace Corps are 2 kind of weather-ish related things. The first thing I'm going to miss is the Beach! Especially OC-MD.

Sunset on the Bay in OC

An old picture of my sis and me after a day of boogie boarding in OC.

I've spent a lot of my life in Ocean City, Maryland. I spent summer vacations there with my family, playing mini-golf, spending the all day at the beach and pool, and going to the Boardwalk. And after college I lived there for the summer with some of my best friends, working at a Bar/Restaurant.


The second thing I am going to miss is SNOW! I love love love snow. My senior year of college was when the East Coast got hit with those huge blizzards. It was so much fun. So even though Paraguay does have a "winter" it typically would never get cold enough to snow. I hope Maryland gets one good snow storm before I leave and maybe I'll get to go snowboarding before I leave too :)

Playing in the Snow in Salisbury, MD

Snowboarding at Whitetail Resort, PA

It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas!

One thing I am super excited about is that Christmas falls before February when I leave for Paraguay. So I can put all the things I need/want on my Christmas List

Kelley's Christmas List: 

Luggage - At the moment I'm leaning towards this L.L. Bean

 

Rain Jacket -- Preferably a North Face like this one

Kindle - I love to read .. and this is perfect for traveling in general so I probably would still use it after PC, even though I'm still a big fan of real books :)

 

Those are the big ones. There are obviously some other things I need/want before I leave. But these are the main things I'm asking for, for Christmas.