Here it is... my first blog! long time coming, I know.
First of all, thank you to all of you who could make it to our wedding/ going away party last Friday. It is incredibly overwhelming to try to catch up with everyone, so my apologies to those of you I missed, or who snuck out too early to see Gary and Kris get their dance on. Truly the highlight, even if the spotlight had to come off of me for one minute..
First of all, thank you to all of you who could make it to our wedding/ going away party last Friday. It is incredibly overwhelming to try to catch up with everyone, so my apologies to those of you I missed, or who snuck out too early to see Gary and Kris get their dance on. Truly the highlight, even if the spotlight had to come off of me for one minute..
As most of you know, Kris and I are currently unemployed, spending alot of time catching up on sleep, loving the new season of football, and tyring not to drive one another crazy about Thank you cards.. (they are coming I swear!) We leave in exactly 9 days and so I thought I would post our itinerary for the big departure.
Friday, Sept. 25~ 6 :00 am fly out of Madison
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6:40 am- arrive in Milwaukee (ridiculous right??)
7:45 am- leave Milwaukee
10:55 am- arrive in Philadelphia for Orientation
2 pm- Check in for Shots...sign over our lives, meet others who are putting their lives in the hands of our fine government.
7pm- Staging over...
we now know everything we need to about the Peace Corps, right?
Saturday, Sept. 26~ 2:30 AM bus to JKF (approx. 2+ hours)
11:35 am ish (haven't received exact African flight info yet)
15 1/2 hours in the air to beautiful South Africa
Sunday Sept. 27~ 8:55 am arrive in Johannesburg
2:05 pm. FINALLY ARRIVE IN MALAWI!
We will spend our first weekend in the city of Dedza which is about 85 km southeast of the capital city Lilongwe.
We think (from reading other blogs) you can send us mail to an office in Lilongwe until we figure out where we will be more permanently.. around Christmas!
This is probably enough for my first letter, I have to get back to taking all of the gifts and new purchases for our journey out of its original packaging and having Kris explain to me how it all works!!
