...thaaaaat's me! I just got off the phone with SATO travel after speaking with the same gentleman who helped me fill out my passport and visa application forms. He's a trip, he got right down to business after half-jokingly (?) reprimanding me for waiting until so late in the day to call. I felt a little lectured when he was presenting me with my flight options...but whatevs, I've got a flight and I don't have to do anything but show up.
Departing: Hartford CT 9:32 am
Arriving: Philadelphia PA 10:40 am
Staging will take place at a hotel in downtown Philly, registration is from 1:30 until 3:00, at which time we'll begin our first bit of orientation training. (Why, then, couldn't I have taken the flight that leaves Hartford at 11:30 and arrives in Philly at 12:40? Good question.)
Now there are about a billion little things I have to get sorted and signed and put together. I have to defer my loans, grant my mom Power of Attorney, make sure I've read/signed everything that these Peace Corps folks want me to read/sign...I have to finish quite a few more hours of the Rosetta Stone, acquire the rest of the things on my packing list. Purge all of my belongings and random crap. Hm.
...no more job! That's official. I was going to push it out until tomorrow but the chips sort of fell in a different way. I have a lot of little things I need to do before leaving, and I'm running out of...time?...money?...neither one of those things, actually.
This is just SO FUNNY! It's almost weird to think that after all of this waiting and such, I have a flight booked to staging (and, I hope, to Ouagadougou). I have a hotel room waiting for me on June 9th in Philadelphia. SATO travel man let it slip that there are 68 trainees heading to Burkina Faso...sixty-eight. That can't be right, that's such a large number. Sixty-eight. Hm.
Hm hm hm. I'm gonna chip away at some of the stuff I have to get done now. Four weeks to the day until I leave. I have to remember to take my final exam tomorrow evening. Maybe I'll tie a string around my finger. I have a trip to Canada to look forward to this weekend...I'm going to visit Rahel's friends and family with her for a few days. After that, I am wiiiiide open. A lil' visit to Odyssey Community School so that I can talk with the kids who will be following me on my Peace Corps adventure...a lil' good-bye party the next weekend so that I can see a lot of the people I may not otherwise get the opportunity to see...a lot of outdoor time and friend time and cooking and eating and being merry, and I think I'll be good to go four Tuesdays from now. Or I'll be peeing my pants. Perhaps inclusive or.
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Hey, wasn't aware you have a blog (:
I get into Philly at 1055 from Milwaukee, we should try to meet up at the airport before we go over to the hotel.
I just made this blog of mine a little more public the other day. I'd love in on yours too!
Yes let's meet up at the airport, that's a great idea. I won't have my phone at that point but I can't imagine it'll be difficult to find each other. Cool. :)
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