up early for a 6 hour bus ride

I'm up wicked early this morning and in half an hour I have to go downstairs to catch a bus to David. I'm so excited and nervous to meet my family. I've been hardly eating because I'm so nervous and I'm pretty sure everyone thinks I'm anorexic. Haha just wait until the meeting in 4 weeks. They're going to be like "WOAH YOU ACTUALLY EAT!" It's a good thing everyone's really friendly. It's so scary to be meeting the people you're going to be living with for the next 6 months. The good thing is I've talked a lot with them and they all seem super nice.

I've made friends from around the world. I have two friends from denmark, one from switzerland, a bunch of german friends and one from holland. I've talked with people from all over Europe pretty much and I think there are two girls from thailand. We've had a ton of down time just to hang so I've been talking a lot with different people. I asked some of them if they liked Obama and most said they did but they didn't know too much about him. When I asked people if they liked George Bush, everyone said they hated him. I thought it was funny to get people's views from around the world because they were all pretty much the same. When I asked people about sterotypes of the US they all said we should be "fat and rude and stupid." One Danish guy said that we were just weird people from the US and they don't believe that everyone isn't fat. It's been such a fun couple of days and now today I'm going to start my real life in Panama.