Well folks, time seems to be speeding by here… One minute it was Halloween and I was carving an elephant on a pumpkin and dreaming about Africa, the next we were getting immunizations to make us immune to the world and now we’re 15 days out from the big adventure.
With the thought that we’ll be in Africa in like 2 weeks, we’re trying our hardest to tie up all the loose ends that come with leaving the country for 2 months. With our passports back from Ottawa and in our possession, we are theoretically ready to go, but I don’t think we’re mentally there quite yet. For one, Kiri is still trucking through her last week of clinical and I’m trying my hardest to study for a couple more finals before I can officially say I’m done with university for the year.
In regards to our post-Africa adventure… I’m not going to lie, it’s pretty much a blank map. We have a general outline, and a list of things we want to do, but nothing too concrete, other than Kiri’s intense desire to go on a cat canal cruise in Amsterdam. I’m not joking. It exists. And apparently we’re going. Even though the public health nurse said we’re not allowed to pet the animals abroad because we were too cheap to get the rabies vaccine, it looks like we’re going to take exception for a bunch of stray cats who live on a canal boat.
And so, with 15 days to go, we thought we’d send out a huge thank you and quick update for anyone who has supported us. We are completely blown away by the donations to help us out with our Africa leg… if you’d told me 3 months ago that we would have over $5000 fundraised, I would’ve told you to stop teasing me. From the bottom of our hearts, Kiri and I want to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who has donated… whether you made a perogie with us, spent an afternoon on a bottle drive (or drank the bottles that you then donated to us!) or supported us with monetary donations, we are immensely grateful and hope to do you proud in Africa!
-L
ps. Here is a picture of my elephant pumpkin… I’ve never actually put effort into pumpkin carving before and was quite sad the day it rotted.
With the thought that we’ll be in Africa in like 2 weeks, we’re trying our hardest to tie up all the loose ends that come with leaving the country for 2 months. With our passports back from Ottawa and in our possession, we are theoretically ready to go, but I don’t think we’re mentally there quite yet. For one, Kiri is still trucking through her last week of clinical and I’m trying my hardest to study for a couple more finals before I can officially say I’m done with university for the year.
In regards to our post-Africa adventure… I’m not going to lie, it’s pretty much a blank map. We have a general outline, and a list of things we want to do, but nothing too concrete, other than Kiri’s intense desire to go on a cat canal cruise in Amsterdam. I’m not joking. It exists. And apparently we’re going. Even though the public health nurse said we’re not allowed to pet the animals abroad because we were too cheap to get the rabies vaccine, it looks like we’re going to take exception for a bunch of stray cats who live on a canal boat.
And so, with 15 days to go, we thought we’d send out a huge thank you and quick update for anyone who has supported us. We are completely blown away by the donations to help us out with our Africa leg… if you’d told me 3 months ago that we would have over $5000 fundraised, I would’ve told you to stop teasing me. From the bottom of our hearts, Kiri and I want to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who has donated… whether you made a perogie with us, spent an afternoon on a bottle drive (or drank the bottles that you then donated to us!) or supported us with monetary donations, we are immensely grateful and hope to do you proud in Africa!
-L
ps. Here is a picture of my elephant pumpkin… I’ve never actually put effort into pumpkin carving before and was quite sad the day it rotted.