Here we go!!!!

Leaving your house for the airport and trying to comprehend that you will not be back for eleven months is something very strange. I am sure that it has not really occured to us that we are not going home. We have already met many lovely people here in D.C. All of the people connected with the exchange program are amazing. We have met people from Scotland, England, France, Africa, Eastern Europe and we have only been here for about six hours. Of course the highlight of the night was meeting my exchange partner, Jane, and her daughter Robyn. Robyn and Monique hit is off right away and went off and enjoyed themselves all evening meeting many other dependent children. They get to go to D.C. and see the Smithsonian tomorrow while I get to sit in meetings all DAY!! YEAH! I think I overwhelmed Jane with a million questions tonight at the banquet and her jet lag was starting to kick in. Then just for fun we have had two fire alarms in the last hour. I typed the first part of this entry from a curb at the front of the hotel. I did not get a picture of Jane and Robyn yet, but I will add one tomorrow. It is starting to feel very real. I hope all of you at Sandburg are ready to welcome Jane with open arms. In the small world department, I met a teacher from New Trier, whose exchange partner I met in Cleveland last May and he graduate from--you guessed it--Carl Sandburg High School. I think it is going to be that kind of year

Cheers