Tuesday morning 5am...

It's 5am Tuesday morning...I was lying in bed with so many thoughts going through my mind...I had to get up...so here I am writing...

I'm very excited about our trip...I can't believe that we are actually leaving for Bangladesh Saturday morning. That's this coming Saturday morning. It seemed so far away when we first started planning this trip.

So much to do...the Caring Coins are ready, packed in bags of 100. I'll be picking up the final coins and students' questions from LTS tomorrow. Originally, we thought of putting the questions on a spreadsheet but we decided to bring the original questions with us so the students in Bangladesh can see them for themselves. I met with the Leos Club at BBA yesterday. It's so neat to see how interested the kids here are in learning about other kids.

We are putting together pictures of Vermont, the beautiful scenes, the farms, the mountains...Rubel said they want to know what we are doing for the enviornment. So, I'm bringing a tape of my Good News in the Shires TV Show about composting in our schools. In some ways Bangladesh is ahead of us. Did you know that Bangladesh is one of the first countries to almost completely ban plastic bags? They have also banned petro and diesel vehicles from Dhaka.

Today I'm going to pick up some last minute things. I'd better check up on the regulations for what and how much to bring. For some reason, every time I travel, I am the one they pull out of the line for further scrutiny...

I'm rambling...More later...