Let the Countdown Begin!

Last Friday Tim and I received our staging information via email! We got to read some more about a lot of things we already knew. Like making safety our number one priority over there (seems like a no brainer to me). The "packet" did contain some really helpful stuff though. It gave a schedule of what we would be doing in Philly and everything that we need to bring with us. It also gave us the information we needed to book our flights out there. So as of today at approximately 4 p.m. Tim and I will begin our Peace Corps adventure in full starting with a 6 a.m. flight out of Moline on June 9th! Ok, so the whole 6 a.m. thing really isn't that great of news...I still have to tell my hubby that I will be so excited that I won't be able to sleep and if I can't sleep well I get hyper =) I'm sure he is going to love that! From Moline we fly to O'Hare and have a two hour layover then we head on to Philly.

We also got the information on our other flights. Basically we fly from Philadelphia to Paris in 8 hours. We have a two hour wait until we hop a flight from Paris to Ouagadougou which is another 8 hour flight. So when everything is said and done, Tim and I leave Philly at 6:40 p.m. on June 10 and finally arrive in Burkina Faso at 4:40 p.m. June 11. All I can say is I think there is going to be some jet lag going on =)

Other than receiving our staging info Tim and I have been pretty busy getting all our stuff in order. We both have about 20 hours left to complete on Rosetta Stone. All I can say is that there is one girl in our cluster who has completed 82 hours...she must have no life, because we are struggling to complete the 40 hours. Oh I also found out that we have to learn some basics in Moore, just some general greetings and other things that we will need when we first arrive in Ouagadougou.

On a final note our going away parties are coming up. The one that Denny and Rose are giving is this coming Saturday. I'm pretty darn excited about this. Tim is planning on have bags and possibly some cribbage games going. I can't wait to play some cribbage with the family and I know Tim can't wait to have me as his Lucky partner. Then we have another party the following week on Sunday. This one is at Ron and Ida's. I'm trying to get a volleyball net for that party as well as a wicked beer/pop pong tournament going.

Well I think that is quite a big update for now. We'll keep everyone posted on any new developments.