I guess it hasn't hit me yet.*

[bending_sickle]

Sometimes I'll be talking to folks about my internship and they'll go, "Omg, that's so awesome!" and I'll just go, "...yeah. Yeah, it is. Omg, it is." It just hasn't sunk in really. Apart from my dance of squee and tears of joy when first accepting, I haven't really given the whole thing much thought. I've been too focused on the proposal and its little frustrations to actually get it all wrapped up in my head.

But dudes, I'm actually doing this. Come end of Jaunary, I'll be hopping on a flight to Kenya, then driving down to Amboseli National Park and shacking up at the headquarters, where I'll be staying for over 3 months. Then I'll be out every day or so tracking lions through their GPS radios and doing transect counts of prey wildlife and local livestock and occasinally going to the game ranches north and south to chat with the Maasai.

You know what? I've just written that and still can't really believe it. There's just this haze of flail and squee and stressed-out preparations.

So some pictures:

My future home!


My future backyard!


The future drive to work!


The future next-door neighbours!



* ibid, Blue Rodeo

Comments

[aelora.livejournal.com]

I haven't mentioned how jealous I am.

*is jealous*

Seriously. Coolest thing ever. Makes me really want to get my Peace Corps application finished so I can try to go somewhere and do something cool...

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

XD It really is the coolest thing ever \o/

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

That is seriously an awesome internship. I would love to do something like that. Although, in all fairness, if I did do something like that, I'd be trapped by my own brain because of this.

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

I might just have to sing that sometime while out in the field. It'd be cracktastically awesome.

[phantmgreeneyes.livejournal.com]

That is pretty freaking sweet. And by sweet, I mean absolutely amazing.

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

Sickeningly sweet, yeah XD But the paperwork! Ye gods, the paperwork...

[blizzardcake.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness! I knew you'd be going away to Kenya, but I guess it never really sunk in with me either!! Zomg my dear you are going have an amazing time =D

*squees with you!!!*

And January will be here in no time O.O

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

NoooOOOOooo! Too many things to do! Funding! Vaccines! Supplies! Argh!

...still, XD

[(Anonymous)]

i would be scared stiff to do what you're going to do.

but then i think back to a snowy night in your mcgill apartment, and you mentioned that you would love to study lions in their natural habitat to observe their behaviour. which is pretty close to what you're ACTUALLY going to do, which is so awesome i can't stop grinning when i think about it.

much love!

- kit-kat

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

It really is what I've always wanted to do, isn't it? XD And you have no idea how psyched I am that it's in Kenya. I mean, I would've been cool with any other place (there's folk studying in stations in Cameroon and Botswana), but it's Kenya.

We'll see how the adaptation goes once I'm there. I might be scared stiff yet! ♥