Not quite real

Today our first friends from the A100-150th class departed for Manila. I told Finn his friend left and he asked, why did she have to go to Vanilla? That made me giggle, but at the same time made me sad. The FS world hasn't really hit me with the exception of friends leaving and new people coming in. It's all been a lot of fun as well as stressful. From the very start of the application process to Flag Day (finding out where we're headed) it has been exciting and new, but now, I feel like it isn't quite real, with eight, possibly more, months here I feel like it'll never be our turn. We'll see how it is in December and we're so close.