Well folks, the good karma we've had in regards to how easy it's been to plan this trip had to end eventually. Tonight, Kiri and I set out to complete some minor tasks to finish our flight confirmations and quickly discovered that sometimes airlines change stuff without telling you. Like the fact that our flight from London to Accra was cancelled. And that we couldn't find any information on how to verify our flight to Paris. Even when we tried to buy malpractice insurance for our time spent working in the hospital in Takoradi, the online purchase page was "closed for maintenance."
Despite all these "setbacks" not all hope has been lost! It was only after a MINOR panic attack on my part that we realized that the airline that cancelled our flight booked us on another flight to connect us to Accra and even upgraded our seats! That's right folks! These two starving students will be flying business class (not much for some people, but to us it's basically the closest we've ever been to first class and it's REALLY EXCITING). So I suppose that the title of this post is slightly inaccurate because our lives aren't actually in shambles... we just have some phone calls to make tomorrow morning to confirm all the changes.
The only really new update I have in regards to the trip is the fact that we are beginning to the test the waters with some fundraising ideas for the Africa Leg... this wouldn't be a Kiri and Lindsay adventure if it didn't involve making perogies at some point, so for those of you who live in the area, keep your eyes peeled for signs of a perogie day fundraiser. We're also reaching out to some local organizations to see if they'd be interested in supporting us as we go abroad to assist with delivering babies in Ghana! As we put together a more definitive fundraising plan, we will definitely keep updating this blog, hopefully on a more regular basis! We're pretty good about talking about our website, we're just bad at remembering that it's something we need to update, so this is something we hope to change!
In other news, the excitement level in anticipation for this trip is growing by the moment... not a day goes by that doesn't involve at least 7 caps-locked text messages about how "WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THE TIME OF OUR LIVES." In fact, every text message that gets sent between us somehow comes back to the trip...
-L
Despite all these "setbacks" not all hope has been lost! It was only after a MINOR panic attack on my part that we realized that the airline that cancelled our flight booked us on another flight to connect us to Accra and even upgraded our seats! That's right folks! These two starving students will be flying business class (not much for some people, but to us it's basically the closest we've ever been to first class and it's REALLY EXCITING). So I suppose that the title of this post is slightly inaccurate because our lives aren't actually in shambles... we just have some phone calls to make tomorrow morning to confirm all the changes.
The only really new update I have in regards to the trip is the fact that we are beginning to the test the waters with some fundraising ideas for the Africa Leg... this wouldn't be a Kiri and Lindsay adventure if it didn't involve making perogies at some point, so for those of you who live in the area, keep your eyes peeled for signs of a perogie day fundraiser. We're also reaching out to some local organizations to see if they'd be interested in supporting us as we go abroad to assist with delivering babies in Ghana! As we put together a more definitive fundraising plan, we will definitely keep updating this blog, hopefully on a more regular basis! We're pretty good about talking about our website, we're just bad at remembering that it's something we need to update, so this is something we hope to change!
In other news, the excitement level in anticipation for this trip is growing by the moment... not a day goes by that doesn't involve at least 7 caps-locked text messages about how "WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THE TIME OF OUR LIVES." In fact, every text message that gets sent between us somehow comes back to the trip...
-L