Rundown of last couple days

Saturday night: Stay up till Sunday morning soaking up the last moments with the ones I love.
Sunday: Wake up at 5:30 from the very few hours I had slept to wrap up last things and get ready to leave, head to airport at 7, fly out at 9:45, layover in Dallas, arrive in DC a little after 8pm, don't arrive at hotel until around 9:30pm. Run into other PC Volunteers in the lobby, go find some food, back to hotel to work on things, finally hit the sack around 1:30am.
Monday: Get up early with roommate to search for coffee, eat at hotel restaurant (not recommended), shower and get ready for official start of PC Orientation. Meet all awesome new volunteers that I will be training with in country and go over many other PC things before ending at around 7. Walk to fantastic Vietnamese Restaurant on M in DC, run some errands with roommate, make it back to hotel a couple hours later. Stay up all night getting luggage ready to head to airport (arghh weight limits!!!)
Tuesday: 2am, without having gone to bed, head down to lobby to load onto buses to head to airport...5 hours before our flight:(. Freeeeeeeeeze butt off at airport because apparently even they close for a while and don't care what the temperature is while they aren't there and we were waiting around 5 hours early. Board plane at 7:05ish for flight to Miami, takes off and once reaching max speed which seems right before we lift off the runway only to slam on the brakes because as the pilot informed us "A window popped open and in all his 20 some odd years of flying he has never had that happen." This very un-reasuring information means that we now have to turn around to get the window fixed and now also have the brakes checked and cooled completely because of our intense last moment stop. Eventually take off after all this is done. Mid flight have an allergy attack to only what I can assume is the cat someone secretly stuffed in the air system to try and kill me. :( Land in Miami, get on final flight to Costa. Continue to feel like complete poo. Land in Costa, go through customs, get on bus that takes us to retreat center north east of San Jose in the mountains that we will stay at until mid Saturday. Retreat center is amazing! Beautiful grounds overlooking the town below, camp bunk style housing, already found two local dogs that like to hang out up here:). Go through several different sessions with many different PC Staff. Still feel like poo now several allergy pills deep. Have some great meals. Drink several cups of coffee, 7pm arrives....nodding off because so tired, cant process what the staff member is saying, have to ask when they end the session because my brain and apparently at this point many others in my same exhaustion mode cant seem to even process english anymore. Giggle like we are 5 for 10 minutes only because we are so tired we now feel intoxicated and cant make ourselves stop. Crazy, draining, but already an experience I wouldn't trade fOr the world!! =D Cant wait to see what tomorrow will hold, bring it on Costa!