a little over a week left!

Since I haven’t posted or updated in awhile I’m going to do a slight recap of the last month and a summary of where I am right now in regard to being ready to leave (which, I’m so not sure that I am, could use an extra week to pack…)

I finally took the MCAT on January 30^th, which was a huge relief because I was able to stop studying and start focusing on getting ready to leave. In truth I haven’t been doing too much to prepare. I’ve been picking up random items and articles of clothes over the last few months that I think will be useful in Senegal. February has most been spent continuing work and visiting/saying goodbye to friends. I made it out to scenic (mostly flat and covered in snow) Ohio last weekend to say goodbye to one of my best friends from undergrad, Puja, it turned out to be a great trip.

With tomorrow being my last day of work, I’ll have basically just next week off to pack and finalize everything. Ignoring the incessant snow storms (might as well get my fill of snow now before Africa) I’m traveling up to CT this weekend to see a friend from high school. After that I’ll have a few short days off to actually pack. I still need to decide on my second piece of luggage and there’s lot of items I’m sure I won’t realize I’m missing until I finally put the bags together. Next week is going to be crazy.

Our staging is in Washington DC March 8-9^th, and it’s very close to GW (my undergrad campus). Luckily the PC agreed to buy me a train ticket for the Friday before so I can spend some time saying goodbye to all my friends on campus before I actually leave the country.

So here’s to the final stretch of getting everything done and in order (crap, need to file my taxes asap) and saying goodbye to all the friends and family…I doubt I’m going to get much sleep. I’ll most likely check-in again while in DC just before the flight out on Tuesday the 9^th!