I went to bed last night more excited than ever. I’ve arrived in Los Angeles and today I get on my flight to go to Japan. Last night we had an intense 6 hour briefing with our send off team. Briefing was very helpful in lots of ways, the team I’m on gained more of a sense of what we can expect when we go to Japan, and what will be expected of us. For me this was a relief to go over some of the details, but the fun isn’t taken out of it so quickly, because our entire schedule is rather tentative. Anything could change at any time in a disaster zone. Part of me wants to say, “This is insane!” but another part of me is like, “Yeah, this is great!” I’m in high spirits.
The people on my team traveled from all over the country to get here. I only had to drive two hours, so I felt kind of bad for them, some of them had extreme jet lag and there wasn’t this excitement in the room at Briefing that I had expected from my other team mates. I tried not to let that get me down though. I’m sure today will be different and now that we all have a night’s rest in us, it will be far easier to get giddy and excited. Well...should I be excited? I’m not sure. I want to be, well within certain bounds, but if no one else is, could I be in error?
I’m about to head off to the airport, and it’s been quiet all morning long. I think back to when I first started college at SFSU, and expressing how difficult it was for me to make friends. Now I am again in a situation where I don’t know anybody, yet we all have come together as a group for a specific reason. I will do my best to befriend my teammates. I think by the end of this I will have some really great friends.
Well, it’s only a matter of hours now, I’ll be in JAPAN at 11:00pm California time. I cannot wait to step out onto the platform and see home again. It’s been way too long, Japan. It’s been way too long.
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