One More Month

Finally, my countdown has reached the one month point.  One month from now I will be waking up at the crack of dawn, heading down to the Des Moines airport and hopping on the next flight to Belize.  Well, the next flight to Atlanta, where I will get on the next flight to Belize.  Yay!

There's still so much I have to accomplish in the next month though.  It's crazy.  And I'm not talking only schoolwork and my job.  I mean FOR the trip.  To-do list?  Okay, you asked for it.

1. Pay my parents back the $100 so I can successfully say I paid for this entire trip.

2. E-mail my mentor teacher and see what she's going to need help with while I'm there.

3. Get a health check up to be approved to go.  Really?  I'm relatively healthy.  I'll be fine.  But it's one more hoop to jump through.

4. Get some sandals.  Like, seriously.  I don't own sandals.  I've always hated them.  But we need some water-proof type ones, like Keens for example.  Do you know how much those cost?  Like $100.  I don't have that.  But, I looked online and found these bad boys:

They're only $51-60, depending on the size.  Which leads me to my next crisis.  What size do I pick?  Do I guess bigger or smaller?  My guess will be relatively close, it's just between a size 8 or a size 8.5.  I'm thinking bigger is probably better.  I should probably do that soon though so they can get here. -sigh- Money.

5. I'm spearheading a supply drive for this trip through my honor fraternity, Kappa Delta Pi.  I have to go get the boxes into the School of Education on the right week and every day I need to collect any money that might be in there.  Because let's face it, college students don't have a lot of extra supplies randomly in their room.  So we're hoping they'll donate some money so we can go buy supplies.  Sounds good right?  Well, that's up to me too!

6. Call my cell phone company to find out exactly how much it would cost if it were used down there.  Chances are, I definitely WON'T be using it once I leave the states.  But it'd still be nice to know.  I also need to look into those disposable type phones that are specifically for this situation.

7. Call my credit card company.  Let them know I'm going to be out of the country so they don't think it's fraud or something crazy like that.

8. Make copies of my credit card, drivers license, passport, health card, etc to leave at home with my parents.  Just in case something happens. *knock on wood*

So yeah, that's where I'm headed.  Not to mention the fact that there's a few other things I'm going to make sure to do/buy.

It's a crazy road but I'm only one month away from seeing the Caribbean Coast again!