Okay, I will try to be a blogger

My daughter Candace has convinced me that keeping a blog while I am in American Samoa is a good idea. "It is an easy way to share pictures, and write more than you can with facebook" she says. She is right, and this is likely the only way I will keep much of a journal of my adventure abroad, as I am horrible at writing in a journal.

Sa'oloto Agaga is Free Spirit in Samoan, and seems like the perfect name for this blog, as taking off for two-months is certainly the most "free spirited" thing I have ever done.

My boyfriend Kelly and I are driving to Phoenix on the 31st and spending our last weekend together there before I leave. He flies back to Utah on the 2^nd. :o(

I'm leaving on a jet plane... Oops, I digress to song...

Well, I am leaving on a jet plane, in 10 days, on January 6th from Phoenix headed through Honolulu to Samoa. Yikes!! I am far from ready to go. Let's just say that this week will need to be highly productive! I do however have many new cotton skirts, thanks to my mother, and cotton blouses, thanks to Kelly, which will be my basic uniform for the next two months while I am working with a non-profit group as well as doing my own psychological research on the island.

I return to Phoenix on March 7^th, and am likely to spend a few days with my family and then it's home to Utah mid-March.

Until then, I commit to trying to keep this blog regularly updated, and post pics and tales my of adventures from a far away island, as often as something interesting happens.

Can't wait to throw on a skirt, t-shirt, flip flops and feel the sun. Good-bye sweaters, scarves, and cold Utah snow, hello warm Samoan sand! Just 10 more days to go...

Let the adventure begin!