stressing a little less

Well, thanks to those who have been so kind as to donate money for our volunteer trip, people buying our stuff and an extra loan from school, our VietNam portion of the trip is fully funded. I cannot even begin to explain how relieved this makes me. Of course, now we have to come up with money for our flights home, visas to Thailand and China, transportation to both places, plus hotel and food while we travel around for a month or so. At this point, I figure if worse comes to worst, we simply do the volunteer time at the orphanage, then use the remaining funds to get home. There's something reassuring about that. For a while there, I wasn't sure if I all my plans and hard work would just fall apart and I'd be left with an empty house and empty promises. But we are going and I've got almost 3 months to cram in homework, sewing jobs, screenprinting and packing. I might just barely do it, but I'm galvanized into making it happen.