I've been back in Phoenix for 2 days. While my vacations were awesome and it was great to see some family before I leave, I was definitely getting antsy to start preparing to move. Since I've been home, I've knocked out a majority of the things on my to do list. I cleaned my room (a much more daunting task that it sounds), set out all of my Peace Corps stuff, finished some paperwork, got insurance, in the process of finding a phone, loaded up my kindle with new books, and faxed my yellow fever vaccine info. I still have a lot to do, but the major things are taken care of.
Now that the departure date is getting closer, and I've booked my one-way plane ticket, I'm getting nervous. It's a stomach-killing mixture of excitement, anxiety, doubt, and more excitement. Leaving is constantly on my mind, but I still somehow manage to forget I'm moving in a couple weeks. Then I get all scared and excited all over again when something reminds me, like an ad for a movie that comes out after I leave (which is most movies at this point).
It definitely doesn't seem real yet and I'm not really sure when it will. I apologize in advance to whomever I am seated next to on my flight to D.C. I can guarantee I'll be a sobbing mess for a majority of that flight.
However, I may have managed to cure my rampant procrastination tendencies. I've accomplished more in the last two days than I usually do in a month. Now back to preparing.. I'll post some pictures of my packing pile soon since those are always interesting.
Good luck with getting ready for South Africa. I have friends who lived south of Phoenix for a while this year who are going to Peace Corps in Peru this September. And I think they have a friend leaving from there for South Africa there who worked at maybe a YMCA together. Anyway, I thought I was going to be sent to SA when my placement officer called asking if I was willing to go to Africa, but it turns out I'm going to Cape Verde on the 15th!
ReplyDeleteBest of Luck!