Hello and Happy New Year to all my wonderful friends and family,
I'm off!
... and this is in no small part due to your support throughout the fall. I feel very lucky to be surrounded by such wonderful people. I would like to give a sincere thank you in particular to those who supported my fundraising efforts. Please remember to send me your addresses so that I can write you a letter from my placement.
Having spent New Year's Eve in the air, I am writing this from Heathrow. The next stop is Nairobi, followed by a very early morning flight to Entebbe. I meet up with the rest of the Restless Development group in a few hours, and it will be so great to finally meet everyone in person. While this is 'officially' the first leg of my journey, I have felt 'unofficially' on my way since early in the fall as I began the process of fundraising, preparing my supplies, getting injections, and studying up on Uganda and the work I will be doing. It seems so unreal to finally be on my way. I am feeling very excited to get there and I am also extremely proud of my packing and what I think is actually a fairly reasonable amount of luggage for 6+ months. I am not known for being a light traveller so this is a big achievement. I could hardly sleep at all on the flight to London and I am hoping that I can rest up on the next leg as I will be hitting the ground running. We start training after only a day's rest, and I feel like everything will move quickly from there.
Please keep reading, and I will try to update this blog as often as I can. I hope that you all have a fantastic start to 2012.
Love,
Lauren
I'm off!
... and this is in no small part due to your support throughout the fall. I feel very lucky to be surrounded by such wonderful people. I would like to give a sincere thank you in particular to those who supported my fundraising efforts. Please remember to send me your addresses so that I can write you a letter from my placement.
Having spent New Year's Eve in the air, I am writing this from Heathrow. The next stop is Nairobi, followed by a very early morning flight to Entebbe. I meet up with the rest of the Restless Development group in a few hours, and it will be so great to finally meet everyone in person. While this is 'officially' the first leg of my journey, I have felt 'unofficially' on my way since early in the fall as I began the process of fundraising, preparing my supplies, getting injections, and studying up on Uganda and the work I will be doing. It seems so unreal to finally be on my way. I am feeling very excited to get there and I am also extremely proud of my packing and what I think is actually a fairly reasonable amount of luggage for 6+ months. I am not known for being a light traveller so this is a big achievement. I could hardly sleep at all on the flight to London and I am hoping that I can rest up on the next leg as I will be hitting the ground running. We start training after only a day's rest, and I feel like everything will move quickly from there.
Please keep reading, and I will try to update this blog as often as I can. I hope that you all have a fantastic start to 2012.
Love,
Lauren
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