Today I woke up from a nap and suddenly realized that if I subtract the number of days I will be out of town visiting friends, from the total number of days before staging... I HAVE 23 DAYS LEFT IN GAINESVILLE! That figure seriously crept up on me. One minute Nicaragua is three months away and now its 36 until we are IN COUNTRY.
Although we have not yet received our staging packets, I have heard that it will be in DC. YAY! I get to see Bailey and Brandon before I leave! I'm going to beg SATO travel to let me fly to DC two days early to spend time with them. I won't need hotel accommodations so as long as the price of the flight isn't significantly different than that of the routine day of departure, I should be fine. We have already made an unofficial itinerary which includes a night tour of the monuments, the Holocaust museum, the Library of Congress, a visit to Arlington National Cemetery (to say hi to my grandpa) and some bar hopping.
Some things are beginning to concern me. For one, I have no idea what type of shoes I'm supposed to wear to work because sneakers/chacos/tevas are not exactly business casual but we can't wear heels seeing how the roads will most likely not be paved. I have not purchased a single thing I listed in the last post as "to do." I still have to go and get the second dose of the chicken pox vaccine. (I'm not sure if I have mentioned the fact that I have never had the chicken pox and don't plan on getting it down in Nicaragua.) I haven't told Verizon I'm going to be suspending my service... or my cable company that I'm canceling.
I need to remind myself that now is NOT the time to procrastinate. Having said that, it will continue until at least next week because every day until Thursday is going to be consumed by a hellish amount of school work. Thursday night I'm heading to Savannah for the weekend. "Ghost tour pub crawl" here I come!
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Hey! You said: "For one, I have no idea what type of shoes I'm supposed to wear to work because sneakers/chacos/tevas are not exactly business casual but we can't wear heels seeing how the roads will most likely not be paved."
Try Keens. I was looking at those, and plus someone mentioned they'd be especially good dress shoes in some of these areas where the terrain doesn't exactly support heels or really nice shoes. Their BLVD or Market St. styles would be especially suiting. The one people brought up as being useful for "dress shoes" but still fitting the environment and terrain :
http://www.keenfootwear.com/product_detail.aspx?sku=5347
http://www.keenfootwear.com/product_detail.aspx?sku=5342
Especially in the brown or black. I hope that helps. There is also a PC discount for 2 shoes a season supposedly, but I'm not sure how it works ( http://sarahpuffer.blogspot.com/2008/03/discounts-for-peace-corps-volunteers.html )
hope that helps on the shoe front!
No need to beg SATO. What I've heard from RPCV is that they let you fly to the staging site whenever the hell you want.
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