About me
As the title suggests, this is a chronicle of my changing times. I currently live Arlington, Virginia and I go to graduate school at ESIA at GWU. I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Haskovo, Bulgaria. Now I'm what's called a RPCV. I see this as an open diary of where I was, where I am and of course where I hope to go. It's a record of the daily trials, tribulations, successes and distractions of my journey. I hope you enjoy it. Welcome to a slice of my world. I'm also obliged to say that this is not an official Peace Corps website and the views and information presented here are my own and do not represent official Peace Corps views.
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And it is done...
After a hectic day yesterday of packing and abortive attempts of mailing packages back to the states I spent my first true "All-Nighter" since my college days repacking everyting I had from 2 suitcases and 4 packages to 3 suitcases. I also did my best to clean up the place a bit, even though I had been told in no uncertain terms by the woman in charge of the dormitory that it was not my job to clean - they paid people for that. I just couldn't in good conscious leave my mess to someone else.
Today has been a blur of a bus ride to Sofia early this morning and then crashing for 30 minutes at my friend's apartment where I'll be spending the night tonight. I realized that taking a 3 checked bag onto the plane would be prohibitively expensive, especially since I'll have a leg to Spain on Sunday and then a longer leg to the US in a few weeks. So with my friend's help, I came up with a solution to ship it as freight back to the states. Off to the airport we went to get that "30 minute" task completed only to find out that it really takes close to 3 hours. Regardless, it's taken care of and I don't have to worry about lugging a 24 kilo hard cased suitcase with me for the next month. Money well spent, if you ask me.
This of course led me to rush off to Peace Corps office, where I now sit. By the time I got here it was 4:45 and people weren't all to happy with me since I was supposed to be in at 1pm. I think I had the quickest verification of completion (a rather lengthy checklist) in the history of PCBG. In the end, I looked up at the medical officer and said "that's it?" before I realized everything was done. So rather anti-climatically my service here ended.
I'll bum around Sofia tonight and tomorrow before flying out Sunday morning. The hard part is done in many ways now all I have to do is make it to my flight. Well that and say a few last, rather painful, goodbyes. It's hard to believe that my two years are over. This is going to take some time to sink in...
In good news - I am an Uncle for the second time! My sister gave birth to Emily last evening and both baby and mom are doing wondefully. I can't wait to get home to see the newest edition to the clan.
Posted by: mjmarble at June 22, 2007 16:21 |
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