Leaving tomorrow

So the time has arrived! My flight departs tomorrow for Philadelphia. Here is my schedule for the foreseeable future:

-Fly to Philadelphia for staging (pre-departure orientation) where I get pricked and poked with more vaccines and then learn how not to die the initial days I'm there.

-Fly at 6:30 pm from JFK to Brussels, Belgium on Sept 16 and then catch an Air Brussels flight (yummm for chocolate and waffles (more likely economy nuts and diet coke)) that arrives in Yaoundé, Cameroon (the capital) at 4:45 pm on Sept 17.

-Spend five days in the capital for some more pricking and poking (a government specialty) and more orientation.

-Then three months in Bafia (a town a couple hours north of Yaoundé) for intensive language and cultural training (8 hours a day, 6 days a week)

Around early December, I will finally arrive at my post where I will live, work and hopefully have some of the best times of my life for the next two years. Any prayers and thoughts (and gifts of hand sanitizer and candy) would be much, much appreciated!!

A demain!!