Getting Ready!

Hello, my darlings!

As i write this, it is my second-to-last week here at New Futures. I am happy and sad. I am happy because I am getting ready to go on a big, scary, amazing adventure. I am sad because I have to leave people I love very much.

That's how life goes, I think. Have you ever had to leave people you love?

After next week, I will be spending all of March and the rest of February preparing for this trip. What do you think I'll need?

The first thing that came to my mind was FOOD. Food is going to be an adventure all by itself, because we can't just carry normal food.

Imagine carrying bread, pasta, fruit and vegetables, pizza, and rice for 60 DAYS of breakfast, lunch, and dinner!

It would be like trying to move a mountain. Can't do it.

So we basically have to dry food out so that all the water is gone. This is called dehydration. For example, if we want to eat spaghetti, we have to dry out the spaghetti

dry out the tomato sauce

and put it all in a ziplock bag.

Then when we want to eat it, we put it in hot water, and - Voila! - the spaghetti soaks it up like a sponge and becomes food again.

What do you think?