To The Wire

So, there is almost exactly a month left. Ouch. It is getting hard to tell the nervousness from the excitement, well not quite but there is definitely a lot of both. I have resolved to get all formal work that I need done done THIS WEEK. Otherwise I will just be running around like a chicken with my head cut of till I leave. - Today I got my Durable power of attorney, medical power of attorney & and living will done. How exciting. Not really in case you did not catch the sarcasm. Reading all the stuff does not make me more nervous about the PC, paperwork is not going to make something more dangerous. But their is something about putting in writing how you want to be handles if you are a vegetable. I am not sure I like the finality of it. It make me a little nervous for my family to be so restrained in their decision making ability. I have decided to write my own sort of Medical power of attorney, as long as it is witnessed and notarized I don't see why it wont work. Lets cross our fingers. - enough glum - I just got back from a week at the beach. I had bunches of fun, but finally goodbyes are sad. of well so long to another town. Here is a pic of my and bub in Francis Marion - It is pretty flat so I would not call it hiking but the swamps are nice. - just hoping I don't end up with lime disease;)

Mixed Reviews

I joined this Azerbaijan Network on face book. I have met the nicest and most interesting people. Marines-people form Azerbaijan-people working with different companies-and those who just moved for other random reasons. They are almost all young, so I guess my demographics will be off and I am going to miss out on a lot of info, but it is still a world of help. Everyone seems to genuinely want to help, and a lot of them have made the same long term moves ( usually for some other reason) and want to share what they found out. So, everyone who has taken the time to write me, THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!

I have heard from two guys in the Peace Corps AZ4, they will be leaving about a month or two after we get there. I am getting sort of mixed review on how people like it. It is probably best if I just listen to the good stuff. I have no urge to show up pre-depressed. I think I will have enough of that in due time ;) After talking with one of the guys I am starting to change my ideas of what I am going to be doing. I was thinking out in bum fuck, with some cows and farmers. This other guy is in CED and is working in an American NGO. I am starting to think I might be working less directly with the farmers and and more with a bigger organization that they are all related to. I am not sure how I like that. -More remote, less Americanized or more Americanized but more convenience? I guess it depend on how much I want to suffer while I am there and how much I want to have to adjust. I don't really know why I am even thinking about it. It is not like I really have much say anyhow:)

Here is a list of things that I have gathered so so far, as the more pertinent
1. Taxi Drivers They are going to try, and I am quite sure succeed, at cheating me (at least until I can figure out what is going on)

2.English My host family is more than likely going to try and make me teach them and/or their children English - and when I refuse, even politely, they are going to talk trash:)

3.Summers are hot and humid as hell, as someone told me " In fact, it is not Saudi Arabia but sometimes it is unbearable because of the humidity" - Though I know even less about Saudi Arabia so that analysis was a little ever my head.

4.Boots/Warm Coat It is not that winters are that bad, but I will never find a either of these that will last more than a month- at least not on my future budget - almost nothing.

If there is anything else supper important it cant be that important b/c is all I can remember right now. Maybe my brain is just being overloaded.