"Free to a Good Home" - transitioning to the Peace Corps
It appears that I'm not the most regular blogger...I'm a few months into the interesting transition between living and working in Boston to shipping off to Benin in June. Although I'd been expecting to leave for Peace Corps in late November initially, I'm really glad that I've ended up having this extra half year. I had a great Christmas with my family in our new home of Franklin, West Virginia - and then headed back to Boston with Mom for a week of packing, cutting back on stuff, and training my replacement at work. The packing goal: to fit everything I own into our family's van and drive it up to the Adirondacks for storage. Cutting my half of a fully furnished apartment down that much was an interesting adventure, to say the least. In the end, I delivered a full car load of clothes and things to Goodwill, and recruited various friends to serve as "foster parents" for my couch, folding screen, glider rocker, painted wood rug, and guitar. I may