Wow. After long threatening hiatuses (hiati?) I actually fell off the face of the blogging earth for real that time. I have enjoyed the season of not thinking how any given daily activity might fit into blog fodder, but the time and the place for vomiting my experiences into the interwebs appears to have returned. So here we go.
I am sitting on the near side of my final weekend in NC before venturing off to Swaziland, Africa for 5 weeks. It has been an amazing path just to getting the trip lined up, and I know that crazy things are in store for the next 5 weeks. I may not sleep for the rest of the weekend!
I will be working at a shelter for abused women, Elusitweni, which means "house of rescue." I met the director of the shelter, Glenda Stephens, at a bible study that Christy took us to when we were in Swaziland in June of '08. Honestly, Im not sure exactly what I am going to be doing. Some learning about the way they do things and some helping out wherever I can, but I can't really know what the details will be until I get there.
I leave sometime between Sunday and Monday next week. Technically it is Monday morning, but I will have to leave for the airport at a time that is far more middle of the night than morning. What is lovely and crazy is that a friend is voluntarily subjecting herself to this painful hour so that I dont have to make a lonely solo trek to the airport.
So for the weekend, it's finishing up packing. A few extraneous errands remain but things are mostly together. I will post more about the crazy way that things unfolded to make this trip come together. And then I hope to post my adventures and pictures and all kinds of fabulous stuff like that as access to the internet allows. Welcome to the journey.
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...but whatever :)
Have a lovely and safe trip! I look forward to hearing about it!
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