THIS IS IT!

We are off tonight. There are 33 people in our group working in three areas: education, helth and business. There is another married couple, very young.. Staging or orientaion was a day of long meetings and what not to dos and what to dos. I couldn't help thinking how important boundaries are when health and saftety are serious risks. Our emotions are high as well as the knots in our stomachs. The flight is 17 hours. Everything looks so close on the map.

The weirdest aspect of this new life so far is leaving the old one behind: no papers to grade, no progress reports, no grociers for three months to worry about...everything is so new and different it seems to require a brain shift.

Internet and contacts will be diofficult after toda. We will do our best to keep in touch. So...up, up, and away we go.