Floating
What a strange sensation, being out of work. Unstructured days roll by. There is no work week and no weekend, just a gradual blending of day into night into day, while I adjust from UK time to Eastern Standard time. It's a luxury, really, this open time frame.
The process of preparing to leave America is surreal. It's a big, fat letting go of life as I know it. An evolution of saying goodbye to everyone and everything familiar. An unrelenting list of things to do: make phone calls, sell the truck, meet with financial advisors, update bank accounts, schedule lunches with friends, decide what to take to Kenya (we have a weight limit on the flight) and plan trips to see family. Read, read and read about Africa and Kenya as day shifts into night into day. Michelle Strong, in Vancouver, is preparing to leave North America for Ethiopia on Jan. 30th, and she's advised me to brace for a last minute frenzy during the final week. She'll be ready, though, with time to spare because she's very competent. Taking Michelle's advice, I constantly make lists and revisit them, trying not to panic.
After training in England for a week-- where I constantly thought about the job in Kisumu -- I feel I'm halfway to Kenya already.
The process of preparing to leave America is surreal. It's a big, fat letting go of life as I know it. An evolution of saying goodbye to everyone and everything familiar. An unrelenting list of things to do: make phone calls, sell the truck, meet with financial advisors, update bank accounts, schedule lunches with friends, decide what to take to Kenya (we have a weight limit on the flight) and plan trips to see family. Read, read and read about Africa and Kenya as day shifts into night into day. Michelle Strong, in Vancouver, is preparing to leave North America for Ethiopia on Jan. 30th, and she's advised me to brace for a last minute frenzy during the final week. She'll be ready, though, with time to spare because she's very competent. Taking Michelle's advice, I constantly make lists and revisit them, trying not to panic.
After training in England for a week-- where I constantly thought about the job in Kisumu -- I feel I'm halfway to Kenya already.
posted by Cindi at 1:28 PM
2 Comments:
Hi Cindi,
as usual your blog is straight from your heart..very interesting read..keep posting so that we too can travel through Africa..
R
i loved your blog too it's very interesting what you recount.
i hope to join you but i study now and i can't leave my universty until i graduate.
good luck.
yessin013@yahoo.fr
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