In The Beginning

Posted in Pre-Departure by Dom on September 8th, 2006

So here I am starting a blog. That’s weblog for you non-nerdy types. I plan on trying to update this as much as possible, though don’t expect many, if any, pictures. I have no idea how much bandwidth I’ll have there or what my photo editing capabilities will be. Also, I will have an address where I can recieve mail. For the first three months it will be pretty generic then after placement, I’ll have a new address specific to my location. Once I know either of those I will post them. I won’t have internet access for the first three months I’m there. At least I’m pretty sure I read that. So this site will probably be pretty boring for that time. But “I’ll come back, I always come back.”

This is how this is all going to go down, to the best of my understanding anyway. I have a plane ticket leaving on the 25th at 6am (I don’t know what I was thinking) for Philadelphia. I’ll stay there until the 27th when I leave for South Africa. I stay in South Africa for a night and then it’s on to Malawi. I’ll have training for three months. During that time, as I stated above, I won’t have email/internet access. After that I get sworn in as an official volunteer, and shipped off somewhere else in the country for my permanent placement, and thus when my two years begin. I am scheduled to be back to Augusta/US on December 14th, 2008. And that’s that.

I’ve decided to not allow comments for now. This is because of the spam comments I got last time I did this and because I don’t know much interenet access I’ll ever have over there, and I do’nt want to waste my time allowing users to register or whatever.

Here are some other links for you. If you’re bored/interested dig around.
Malawi.com
Malawi Nation - the newspaper
Lonley Planet - Malawi
Wikipedia - Malawi
U.S. Embassy - Malawi
Peace Corps - Malawi
Peace Corps