Birthday Thought

So I am getting excited and nervous to be posted soon. We are in Lusaka getting gifts for our homestay family for our last week with them. And I am thinking about how soon I will be spending my 27th b-day in Africa :) Craziness!! Anyways, I miss you all, wish I could spend my bday with you. But Rob and I will try and figure out something fun to do that day hopefully. So if you were wondering what you could send me for my b-day, here are some things that would be great:
Beef jerky (since I dont eat meat much, because I would have to kill it myself ;)
Kool aid
Apricot face scrub (another volunteer has it and I covet greatly ;)
a loofah mitten (anything to make me feel cleaner ;)
maybe some fun lotion
postcards with pictures of us cities to put on my walls of my hut ;)
a us map to show ppl
fish oil pills for omega 3 ;)
us weekly magazines for fun
80s cds you have laying around
headlamp/batteries
granola cereal
nail clippers
tupperware that locks well to keep rats away ;)

any of these anytime would be awesome!!!! But the best would be letters. I miss you guys. Miss write me at my Petauke address listed on the left of this page when you can. Love you all the much. I hopefully will have lots of fun things to update on soon but may not get to update for a while. As for now, I might be doing passover in Lusaka with another PCV, Rob, and some others which should be fun. Also, I passed my language test so far so I can swear in as a volunteer soon. I also finished my technical competencies to become a volunteer, which mean interviews on health issues I covered in MPH pretty much ;) But it seems like it's coming together so that I will be come a volunteer soon ;) I even got a chitenge suit made for me, which is cultural appropiate and pretty cute ;) And I had Rob get a chitenge shirt made which he looks cute in as well ;) Hopefully we can upload pics soon enough. It will be sad to say goddbye to other trainees who will be in other provinces. They really are soo great. And It will be probably until our 6mth meeting until I see them next. So for now we our wrapping training up, prepping for posting and swear in, and wondering what will come next ;) Love you.