Sunday, January 28, 2007

It's official I'm here!!!


Wow I can hardly believe it. Today is Sunday for me and we have been here three days and it feels like a lifetime. Above in me and Whitney at Lusaka National Airport (Laura took the picture) A quick recap of the past week:

The going away parties where great but went by so quick! I saw my MN people last friday night, we all brought way too much food so I was able to build up my considerable "personal food storage" even more. Saturday I tried to relax with family and Sunday was the great Gray/Awes/Damerow Chili cookoff, and everybody who tried them all was a winner cuz man they were good.

Monday morning bright and early I said goodbye to my fam, Mom tried not to cry in front of me (I didn't buy it;)

Monday through Wednesday was Staging in Washington DC. Basically getting our things in order for Africa as well as some basic Peace corps advice and most of all getting to know some of the great people we'll be working with over the next two years. It flew by. We also got a chance to say goodbye to a few more DC folks. Christina thanks again for the TSA approved locks!
Wednesday Morning we left our hotel at 5:30am got a few shots (just yellow fever needed for me) and heading to the airport 5 hours early. We took a 15 hour flight to Johannesberg South Africa. The flight was the longest I'd ever taken (3 hours longer than my South Korea flight) but I maganed to sleep and watch a few African movies including "Faith like potatoes" and "Beat that drum". I liked the latter more than the former but both were interesting. We then spent the night there

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Rob, Glad your flight was good. Happy to see you and Laura updating us on stuff already : ) I like you both write about such different things. Life from more the one perspective always interesting. Tell us more soon.
Love, Stacy

Anonymous said...

Looking for updates. Hope you are having a great time. Love you,Stacy