i'm here! well, now i have been here for two days (it's funny, it seems like so much longer!) it's awesome. hard work, but awesome. yesterday i was canoe girl, helping out the kids and hauling the boats to shore (fuck, those things are heavy!), and today i was an all-day 'belay slave' at the climbing wall - i loved it. soon i will have my own group of kids, but for now i am trying to get up to speed on all the activities/workshops/lessons. it's beautiful here! so green! so HUMID! (but we have air conditioning in the staff house - woo!)

last night i went out with some people i work with to see kristen hersh, grant lee phillips and john doe (the exile follies) in chapel hill. on the way there, we listened to john mayer and jack johnson. :) it's sweet to be living with people who are into the same type of music i am. we're going to see jack johnson in raleigh in october, and i might try to catch trey anastasio in asheville on halloween. so many good shows - so close by!! and great people to go with!

the rest of the drive was a little more trying than the first part...the truckers in west virginia are terrible! one came up behind me so fast...i have never been so worried i would be hit. then he followed me down the west virigina turnpike, which, to those from northern californina (hi julie!), is just like hwy 17...curvy twisty mountainous hell. in the dark. going 80, afraid of the mad truck driver. needless to say, i was happy to be off that road.

whew. so much more to say....so little time...hopefully more soon. hope everyone is doing well! i have some ben and jerry's half baked in the freezer calling my name. (well, i had a coupon that expired sunday, so i *had to buy some, ya know?)