We are going to South Africa. The Peace Corps has finally decided. We'll be part of the Schools and Community Resources Project. We'll be assigned to a village secondary school. Sally will teach English and do some teacher training, and I'll be a Technical Resource. We got the invitation at the end of April, just a little more than a year after we began the application process, and we depart on July 21.
As you might expect, we have been frantically trying to clean out and sell our house and get our lives in order to be gone for two years. Fortunately, the house sold in four days. (We had a great real estate person who gave us very good advice on strategy.) We've picked a moving-and-storage company. And we've burned out one office-sized shredder and started on a second.
So we have two major bits of advice: (1) Do this, or something like it: life is too short not to spend it on adventures, and (2) Clean out your stuff.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
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