One Month To Go!

Today we got our staging email from the Peace Corps to let us know when and where staging will be. For the uninitiated, staging us just a quick orientation in an American city that gets us ready to go to a new country. Our staging will be in Philadelphia, which is particularly awesome because my mom lives only about 45 minutes away.

Our staging schedule looks pretty intense. We register at noon on September 27th, and then we have conversations with Peace Corps officials until 7 (we do get a break in there). Next, we try to go to sleep ASAP because we have to be awake to check out of our hotel at 2:30 am on the 28th. At that point, we get on a bus to take us to New York, where we'll leave on an 11:15 am flight to Johannesburg, South Africa. The flight will be in the air for over 15 hours. After we arrive in Johannesburg, we have an hour-long layover before we take a short flight (1 hour) into Maputo, Mozambique.

I'm so excited. Without exaggerating, I think Mozambique is on my mind at least once every hour.