One week before departure

Fireworks Last Night In Denver! 

Next week this time I will be on the flight to DC for staging prior to my departure for Uganda. Thousands of thoughts in my mind and packing is the foremost. We had a big 4th of July celebration with all the family yesterday. So nice to have the kids and grandkids here, running about, all the BBQing and laughter, these are the things that I will miss. Back to the Apple store for the 2nd time this week to get additional cords and plug in's for the projector which I will need for my classes. I purchased the awesome little pico pro which is about the size of my Samsung phone. Only gitch has been getting anything to work with the Mac, it projects beautifully from the phone, just not the Mac.

Mac Now Supports Windows 

I continue to follow various groups on FB and learn so much for them, one that I enjoy is PC for 50 plus volunteer. Some of the posts really are funny, people actually think that 50 is old! The 50's feel like a distant yet beautiful memory for me at this point in my life. I would like to always live like the best decade of my life is yet to come. Most people imagine the typical Peace Corps volunteer as someone who recently graduated who is in their twenties and of course this is true of most volunteers however the Peace Corps has always been open to people of all ages and Lillian Carter, the mother of President Carter might be one of the most famous PC volunteers and she went to India as a nurse when she was 68. 

Received the schedule from the PC of where we are staying in DC and what our 10 days there will look like. I'm absolutely fine about everything except a little uneasy about having a room mate ..... I shared that concern with a few other volunteers who said that it was a big deal with them to but that it worked out fine. All the things that I could worry about seem to focus on the little things. I am to have a partner living and teaching at the University in Lira with me and although I have had long conversations and communications with the outgoing Seed group who are now back in the US the person that I will be spending the next year with has been very silent. In that she is probably the person I will be sharing a room and a house with for the next year I suppose we have plenty of time in the future to get to know each other.

Good old LEFTY 7  

Sold my car :(  Almost 60,000 miles of coast to coast fun and games!

Anyone can go to youtube and google Packing for the Peace Corps and see that I am not the only one wondering what to take, not to take, and with things scattered about. 35 years of living outside the US has given me a pretty good idea of what I want or need abroad, but in Lira, Uganda who knows. The former nurses who were there said that they did not have any power at all their first three weeks in Lira. No Power At All? That is too big of a problem to even start worrying about as no amount of battery packs would take care of that. 

It feels like I have been waiting for months to write the words, "next week" or "tomorrow" I will be departing...... and here we are. 

See LIRA up there?