Beginning of the Babble

This whole keeping a blog thing is going to be weird for me. I'm doing it to keep everyone updated as much as possible while I'm in South Africa. I don't know how its going to turn out because I don't know how often I'm going to actually get on a computer. But I'll try to do good! Honestly, knowing me, this will probably just end up being gibberish because I have a hard time keeping my thoughts in order when I'm really excited about something...like this whole experience for example. But, I'm warning you all that I like to babble, as you can tell from the title of this thing. I like the word babble even. I like it because you only have to say it 3-5 times before it stops sounding like a word. Most words you have to say 10 or 15 times before that happens. So this is my disclaimer and pre-apology for whatever this turns into!