Karmen

Thank you to whoever is up this morning and asking questions about Karmen. First, I am sorry about being so emotional last night. Did not sleep at all either! I didn't have FunDip here to "console" me so I had a little ice cream about 2:00 a.m.

Karmen's trip ...some of you may already know all the details so I apologize if you are reading this twice.

It's with People to People Student Ambassadors....The Tale of Two Cities. They are gone for 2 weeks and they stay busy the whole time. It will be fun but it is alot of learning. They are not tourists...they are students. It really is pretty neat and they get to go "behind the scenes" on everything! Find out the history on everything and meet all the "important" officials of each country. They get to stay overnight at a castle ...which nobody gets to do unless you are with People to People. They also get to spend the day at Disney World Paris. They meet with the Parliament (spelling?) and Karmen will even have to wear a dress! She is dying over that!
they won't keep in touch too much. They stress that when they do call to make it short and sweet. Just ask how their day was and don't talk a lot about home. So I shouldn't say, "Oh Karmen! We are having the time of our life here!" HA They also say that usually the kids do get homesick. That they keep them so busy they don't have time. SOMETIMES...day 2 or 3 they might. Cause usually that is the day that it "sinks in" that they are really away from home. They don't want the kids to take cell phones. Just a phone card and then at night or sometimes during the day if they have some free time...and there is a pay phone near by...then they can call home. No real contact though. The leader calls when they land and then we have a phone tree and we call the other parents. The group of kids from her delegation are very nice. She will meet the other 30-40 kids at the airport. They stay at hotels (she said probably not 5 star!) and they don't know the bathroom situations until they get there. Could be in their room or could be one bathroom down the hall! Remember how our college dorms were??? That will go over well with my princess!
Gotta go...I will post more later...