Friday, August 31, 2007
Off to the distant land of . . . Philadelphia
A little over two weeks before I leave for staging, and at last my flight plans have fallen into place. As it turns out, we're flying to Tanzania from JFK in New York, but staging itself is in Philadelphia. My itinerary for mid-September:
September 16th. Get up at 5 am. Catch 7:30 am flight. Arrive in Philadelphia by 9 am. Register at hotel, eat lunch. Begin staging at 1:30 pm.
September 17th. Staging. (Think lectures, paperwork, and shots)
September 18th. Take a bus to JFK airport. Get on a plane to Amsterdam.
September 19th. Catch a plane to Dar es Salaam in Amsterdam. Arrive in Dar es Salaam.
It will be my first time in Europe, albeit just at an airport, and also my first time in Africa. I'll have about 17 hours of plane flights and 12 hours of lectures on Peace Corps policy. Plus, I'll be meeting the people I'll be in Tanzania with for two years, and finally becoming an official Peace Corps trainee after months of paperwork and preparation. It should be a frantic, busy, exciting few days.
September 16th. Get up at 5 am. Catch 7:30 am flight. Arrive in Philadelphia by 9 am. Register at hotel, eat lunch. Begin staging at 1:30 pm.
September 17th. Staging. (Think lectures, paperwork, and shots)
September 18th. Take a bus to JFK airport. Get on a plane to Amsterdam.
September 19th. Catch a plane to Dar es Salaam in Amsterdam. Arrive in Dar es Salaam.
It will be my first time in Europe, albeit just at an airport, and also my first time in Africa. I'll have about 17 hours of plane flights and 12 hours of lectures on Peace Corps policy. Plus, I'll be meeting the people I'll be in Tanzania with for two years, and finally becoming an official Peace Corps trainee after months of paperwork and preparation. It should be a frantic, busy, exciting few days.
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Packing
What would you pack if you were going to Africa for two years?
I've started a packing list. It's already too long, but it also feels like it's missing things. Any suggestions?
In other news, I'm currently awaiting information from the Peace Corps on travel arrangements. Staging (basically two days of vaccines and paperwork in the U.S.) is scheduled to start less than a month from now; I'm scheduled to be on a plane to Tanzania in exactly a month. So the travel arrangements should be coming in the next two weeks. I'm excited to find out the answer to the long-standing mystery of where, exactly, staging is taking place--all I know is that it's a city with a large airport, as we're flying to Tanzania from there.
I've started a packing list. It's already too long, but it also feels like it's missing things. Any suggestions?
In other news, I'm currently awaiting information from the Peace Corps on travel arrangements. Staging (basically two days of vaccines and paperwork in the U.S.) is scheduled to start less than a month from now; I'm scheduled to be on a plane to Tanzania in exactly a month. So the travel arrangements should be coming in the next two weeks. I'm excited to find out the answer to the long-standing mystery of where, exactly, staging is taking place--all I know is that it's a city with a large airport, as we're flying to Tanzania from there.
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