Still Technically in the U.S., but...

I figured I would actually put a post up before sending a link out to my travel journal. I leave 4 days from now, on Tuesday the 18th. And no, i have not started packing yet. oops.
Anyways, if you don't know what this is all about...I am going to El Salvador from August through December for a study abroad through Santa Clara. The program is called Casa de la Solidaridad and I'll be studying at the University of Central America in San Salvador and living in a community house near there. A few days a week I will also be working in a community about 45 miutes away by bus, helping out at a preschool among other things. At the moment, I don't know too many details about everything but I suppose that will come later.

I'm hoping to update this every once in a while, since I have internet access at the school or at internet cafes around town. For now, I am going to start packing and finish my time in Portland for the summer with family, friends, and Jono who just got back from Iceland. I am currently procrastinating on packing by making this post, actually.

Hope I can keep this travel journal mildly interesting for the next few months! I will mostly be keeping in touch through this journal (especially since I am deleting my facebook soon--?!) or my email, sabinetb@gmail.com. Four months isn't THAT long, but I think that this merits a travel blog anyways. Thanks for reading, I promise the next one will be more interesting and actually involve some travel bloggery.

-Sabine