Communication with the Peace Corps is a very fickle thing. Throughout the application process, it seemed to be dripping out of a faucet... I waited in agonizing suspense for an interview, and then for a nomination, and then (the most drawn out of all!) medical clearance. After receiving electronic notification of my invitation I still had three days of waiting for the packet to be delivered. However...since the fateful day when my invitation to Namibia arrived, the faucet has been slowly turning, knowledge and facts and numbers and dates have come trickling, flowing, and now pouring out. It hasn't been overwhelming, necessarily, just drastically different from the rest of the process.
Yesterday, I got a new batch of information. About staging! My group will be meeting in Philadelphia on July 23rd - two days earlier than expected! It was moved up to due to flight availability... There are 35 volunteers in my group, and we will be taking a 15 hour flight to South Africa, and then another short flight into Windhoek, Namibia's capital city. So as it turns out, I will actually be arriving in Namibia on the 25th. Even though it's only two days difference, it certainly feels like a large chunk of time has just been shaved off my last few weeks. So today I went into full on organization mode. Forms, notes, and lists galore! There are things to buy, give, pack, write, send and deliver...and just a month left to do it all!
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