Monday, January 6, 2014

Down to the single digits

9 days until I leave.  I can't believe I'm actually leaving.  Kind of scary, I think.  People keep telling me that I've done it before so I'll be able to do it again.  I suppose they're right, but it's still scary.  

I leave on the 16th from Amarillo International Airport around 6:30a.m.  Then on to Houston, then to Lima.  I have been in contact with Sue Dawson, so I will be staying with some of the friends for four days before flying to Brazil to stay with one of my friends that I met while I was in Norway.  I will be staying there in Brazil until the 7th of February, and will go back to Peru, but will go ahead and fly to Cuzco.  School will start for me on the following Monday.

I haven't found out yet who I will be living with, but I will be living with a family.  The program I am going with said that they would send me more information, including the contact information of the family I would be living with, two to four weeks before leaving.  So that hopefully means I will be getting it soon!

I am all packed though.  Well almost.  Just waiting on my rain boots to be shipped from Academy.  I think that it will be quite rainy while I am down there.  I will be down there during the rainy season.  I actually will arrive down there during the summer and leave at the beginning of winter.  However, the alitiude of Cuzco and because it is close to the equator, it won't get as hot or cold as it does here.  It will rain A LOT more, that's not too hard to do though.

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