Quick Update

It's been a long while since I updated. All is well, I am safe and in good spirits. A little sick, but with the rapid weather change we've experienced over the week, it's to be expected. It's now into the 30s during the evenings and up to the 60s or 70s during the day.

Work is the same - still busy as could be. I was optimistic when this all started that once we got our feet beneath us and figured things out, it would slow down. Not so much. It feels like we're just as hectic as when we got here, only now I know more of what I'm doing than I did before.

Classes are good, teaching is definitely a new experience to say the least. Having spent so much of my life actually in school, the fact that I'm now on the other side of the desk is unique. Grading papers and being the one spilling red ink all over the place - I feel a little guilty, like I shouldn't be doing this because I was so recently on the receiving end. The course is almost over and it will be time for the final exam and then Chemistry - I'm not sure how I'm going to teach chemistry without chemicals or a lab or anything like that, but there's only one way to find out!

Anyway, all is well here, tomorrow marks 90 days in Afghanistan, and our "over the hump" party is on the 21st. I think we're more than half way overall, but it's definitely depressing to know we've been here so long and have just as much time to suffer through. Everyone I've talked to who has been through deployments before says that the mid-point is always rough, but that things pick up pace and I'll be home before I know it. I'm not sure if I believe that, but I am looking forward to my return trip!