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MISS FORSTER IS ON THE MOVE!

Alright team! The time has come again for me to leave this beautiful state of Minnesota and head off into another country! Okay, not really, but I'M MOVING TO MISSISSIPPI! WHAT.THE.HECK. IDON'TTHINKI'VETHOUGHTTHISTHROUGH.

Here are the basic facts:
On Saturday we will be partying hard at the Forster household so that I can see all of the people I love one last time before I leave. Dad got a keg of HONEYWEISS do you DON'T want to miss out. ((plus you love me?))

THEN, (and this is the best part) at 3:45AM on Sunday morning (June 9th) I depart the beautiful city of Golden Valley,  Minnesota and head to the airport for my 5:20AM flight to MEMPHIS TENNESSEE. There, I'll hop a nice little Teach for America shuttle for a ride to my home for the next five weeks: Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi.

This is the gist of what I know will be happening for those five weeks (though I've heard you really just can't be prepared):

 -get up every day at the crack-o-dawn
-be Miss Forster all day (teaching summer school)
-spend the rest of the day training, learning and lesson-prepping (my FAVORITE activity, of course)
-hopefully go to yoga or go for runs or something to give my body a little bit of joy and peace
-sleep (good thing I've gotten used to getting zero sleep--THANK YOU, STUDENT TEACHING DURING THE LAST SEMESTER OF MY SENIOR YEAR, THANK YOU)

 FAQS:
-no I will not have an income yet
-yes I will be living in a dorm for the first five weeks
-no I don't have housing figured out yet. that will come once i'm down there (fingers crossed)
-no I won't have a kitchen, they'll provide all of my meals for me for the next five weeks (yes, I might starve because I'm a vegetarian, I KNOW)
-I will move to the town I'll be teaching in (or near it) in Hollandale, Mississippi, sometime in the middle of July. That's when my parents will bring my car and the rest of my goodies so I can start decorating MYVERYOWNFIRSTGRADECLASSROOM(!!!) and moving into my house (again, fingers crossed).

As of now, however, the farthest ahead I can see is the blast of a time I'm going to have with my best friends and family on Saturday night. Join us!

xoxo

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