Seven more days...

...of work! How exciting. How scary! One 35 more days until we leave, and we are beginning to get busy with preparations. I think it's slowly hitting me now that this is a BIG deal! Two years out of the country and we have so much to get ready! The Peace Corps checklist is helpful, and we have done most of it (except Power of Attorney, which is Travis' duty, ahem). We should receive our Staging Packet anyday now. Staging is our US orientation to Peace Corps. We will have our Staging Event in Los Angeles from July 7-9, and there we will meet all of our fellow PCTs (Peace Corps Trainees). In our Staging Packet there should be forms to fill out and instructions for last minute preparations.

Well the PCB is no more. For those of you have been reading, you know that means Peace Corps Beard. Travis has shaved his face. I liked the beard, but he is tres handsome without it!

Blogs are really great. I hope we are able to keep this one up while we're gone. I found the blog of another PCV who is actually a BR native and a graduate of St. Aloysius. She is serving in Senegal and her blog is here. It's a small world.

Technical difficulties...trouble with hyperlink...my post disappeared!

I'm trying this again. A friend from Centenary is in Iraq, working at a M*A*S*H-like unit as a Navy corpsman. He has a blog as well.

Anyway, we purchased the 8th season of M*A*S*H and will try to cram all of the episodes in before we leave!