3 sleeps to go!!

Last on-call survived without incident - tick
Last day at school completed without creating too much mischief - tick
Organised and ready to go to Tanzania - very un-ticked!

Have just 3 sleeps to get things together - there's nothing like a little time pressure to focus my mind. Ha!

Next battle - rucksack vs guff to be packed. I fear for my rucksack!
Ipod tunes sorted; courtesy of the bro and he is furnished with a tidy list of jobs to do whilst I'm away in addition to the mandatory house and cat sitting!

Takeaway on the menu tonight - need to lay down some more fat before I get to Africa! Not sure what delights my taste buds will be exposed to over the next few months.

Anyhoo must get on - I can hear my rucksack calling
Next time I post it should be in Swahili as I will be on African soil!
How excited am I?!!
C
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2 weeks to go....

Have two sore arms but all the jabs are now complete and I am the proud owner of a shiny yellow fever certificate! Am watching the pile of 'things to be packed' slowly grow and threaten to take over my bedroom floor! Attended a Tearfund training session yesterday so all educated and raring to go!

Will miss this fella:

Just practising how to add pictures to my blog - any excuse to post a cute picture of puss puss and his chistmas toy! Next cat on here will hopefully be of the lion variety :-)



3 weeks to go....

Did I tell anyone I was going to Africa??!!
Nearly a year in the planning and in 3 weeks time I will be sitting on a jumbo jet - destination Tanzania.

The prospect of spotting my first real giraffe (a safari park giraffe does not count!) fills me with grins!
And I approach the palliative care mentoring role (the real reason for going) with a healthy mix of excitement and intrepidation.

Thought this would be a good way of keeping all you lovely people up to speed with the mischief I'm causing overseas.

So here goes....!