March 10th

I received my invitation to Senegal at the end of September, which gave me the last four or five months to prepare my expectations, but still no concrete date of when I would be leaving, that is until this morning. I finally received my staging packet informing me that I have to be at a hotel in Atlanta by 1:30pm on March 10th. I started the whole application about a year ago and now in less than a month, I will actually be on my way. In fact, once I get back from my Chicago and DC trips I will only have two weeks left at home. Now I have to really get serious about shopping, packing and organizing all of the paperwork. Craziness!