November 16, 2012
So I am trying to figure out the best method of wrapping my brain around the idea that I will be leaving this country in less than three months… and I won’t be returning until April of 2015. How do you truly prepare for something like this? When I return my little brother is going to be turning 19 and my sister 23…. too crazy. I am so excited to finally have a place that I can start researching about and looking into rather than simply speculating about different places I could be going to, but yet it still isn’t real. I don’t think it is going to really hit me until I am in the country and then it is still going to take a few months and then maybe a couple years and then when I come back I’ll finally realize what I had just completed… yup that sounds about what it will be like.
So far in terms of preparation I have started making a list of the things I have to purchase and I have read some blogs from PCV’s currently in Panama to get a better idea of the type of living I can anticipate. It is a definite range from indigenous life in a small village to moderately urban/suburban lifestyle in a moderately sized city. I think the most exciting/terrifying aspect of this is that I won’t even know my actual placement until after my training is complete so I really can’t prepare for what lifestyle I am going to have until I am there.
So to my family expect lots of “oh crap I forgot this” messages and the like.
I think that is all I have to update as of right now but the rest of the invite packet should be en route to my mailbox. I am eagerly anticipating the next round of paperwork and I will complete every last form with a hugely foolish grin on my face.
Hasta pronto!
So I am trying to figure out the best method of wrapping my brain around the idea that I will be leaving this country in less than three months… and I won’t be returning until April of 2015. How do you truly prepare for something like this? When I return my little brother is going to be turning 19 and my sister 23…. too crazy. I am so excited to finally have a place that I can start researching about and looking into rather than simply speculating about different places I could be going to, but yet it still isn’t real. I don’t think it is going to really hit me until I am in the country and then it is still going to take a few months and then maybe a couple years and then when I come back I’ll finally realize what I had just completed… yup that sounds about what it will be like.
So far in terms of preparation I have started making a list of the things I have to purchase and I have read some blogs from PCV’s currently in Panama to get a better idea of the type of living I can anticipate. It is a definite range from indigenous life in a small village to moderately urban/suburban lifestyle in a moderately sized city. I think the most exciting/terrifying aspect of this is that I won’t even know my actual placement until after my training is complete so I really can’t prepare for what lifestyle I am going to have until I am there.
So to my family expect lots of “oh crap I forgot this” messages and the like.
I think that is all I have to update as of right now but the rest of the invite packet should be en route to my mailbox. I am eagerly anticipating the next round of paperwork and I will complete every last form with a hugely foolish grin on my face.
Hasta pronto!
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