I, am accepting my invitation to serve as a NGO Developer Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon, departing June 1, 2011.
I hereby certify that I have read the Volunteer Assignment Description, Online Welcome Book, and Core Expectations and agree to abide by the policies therein.
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So it begins! Above is the body of the e-mails we had to send to officially accept our invitation. We're moving to Cameroon on June 1st! That still seems more like a dream than reality, and now and then we just look at each other and laugh, "Hey, remember how we're moving to AFRICA?" The apartment is full of boxes and furniture that's half deconstructed and shoved into odd places for pictures. We've settled on our moving truck company and started getting things on Craigslist to sell. Please pray everything sells by May 1st, and also that we'll have someone to take over the last month of our lease - otherwise we may be required to pay rent through June.
We've been led to believe that malaria is an inevitability and we should treat any fever as such. We'll do our best to forestall said inevitability as long as possible with mosquito netting (I always wanted a "princess" bed with netting around it as a little girl!) and bug poison, but don't be alarmed! While it will surely suck, it's par for the course, Peace Corps has lots of experience with this, and we're adventurers after all... Yes, we do hope to one day legitimately put "adventurer" under our names on business cards.
We expect we will have access to the internet periodically, and will post updates here when we're able. As of May 7th, we plan to be on the road on our Farewell Tour to squeeze our families a last time until 2013. We don't have our final itinerary yet, but definitely will be in Georgia and Texas in the next few weeks.
I hereby certify that I have read the Volunteer Assignment Description, Online Welcome Book, and Core Expectations and agree to abide by the policies therein.
__________________________________________
So it begins! Above is the body of the e-mails we had to send to officially accept our invitation. We're moving to Cameroon on June 1st! That still seems more like a dream than reality, and now and then we just look at each other and laugh, "Hey, remember how we're moving to AFRICA?" The apartment is full of boxes and furniture that's half deconstructed and shoved into odd places for pictures. We've settled on our moving truck company and started getting things on Craigslist to sell. Please pray everything sells by May 1st, and also that we'll have someone to take over the last month of our lease - otherwise we may be required to pay rent through June.
We've been led to believe that malaria is an inevitability and we should treat any fever as such. We'll do our best to forestall said inevitability as long as possible with mosquito netting (I always wanted a "princess" bed with netting around it as a little girl!) and bug poison, but don't be alarmed! While it will surely suck, it's par for the course, Peace Corps has lots of experience with this, and we're adventurers after all... Yes, we do hope to one day legitimately put "adventurer" under our names on business cards.
We expect we will have access to the internet periodically, and will post updates here when we're able. As of May 7th, we plan to be on the road on our Farewell Tour to squeeze our families a last time until 2013. We don't have our final itinerary yet, but definitely will be in Georgia and Texas in the next few weeks.
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