Well I am not a great writer, but Stephanie set up this blog for me so I'm going to do my best to keep up with it as much as I can.
After an almost two year process of applying and preparing for the Peace Corps I'm finally leaving for my service to Malawi, Africa in two days! I will be there for two years and three months. The first three months I will be living with a host family in Kasungu, Malawi and training for my job while learning the language (Chichewa) and about the culture. After those three months I will move to my own house in a different town (I don't know which one yet) and begin my permanent job teaching high-school science.
So on Saturday I start the first part of this crazy adventure. Me, Stephanie, and my mom are flying to Philadelphia where we will meet my cousin and hang out/ sight-see for a few days. On Tuesday I will say goodbye to them and meet up with my group of trainees in Philadelphia for a short orientation. The next morning we wake up at 2am! to take a bus to New York airport. We then take a 15 hour flight from New York to Johannesburg South Africa. Once there we take another flight from Johannesburg to Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, and stay in a hotel there for a few days before moving on to Kasungu to meet our host families. After almost two whole days of travel I imagine I will be pretty much exhausted at this point.
The last few weeks in America have been consumed with paperwork, packing, buying supplies, repacking, and saying a lot of very emotional goodbyes. I'm going to miss everyone so much! but I finally feel almost ready to go. I'm equal parts excited and completely terrified but I'm trying to keep an open mind and have no expectations so I can get the most out of this amazing experience.
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