The night before departure......

So it's 23.39 as I start writing and I would probably be best being asleep right now but after such a busy day frantically trying to get all me last bits n pieces together (thanks Mum n Dad for Chaperoning!) my head is still spinning.

Have had some lovely messages and gifts from friends and feeling very blessed to have the people in my life i do! It's been really hard to say all the goodbyes, but after all 11 months isn't forever. 

Sally cat is currently curled up sleeping at the side of me, purring away, completely oblivious to the fact that this is our final night of cohabiting the bedroom for almost a year and after tonight she will have it all to herself! Have you ever know a cat to have her own room in a house?? Funny!!

Been having some really bonkers dreams too.....this morning I work up and automatically raced downstairs as I was in a huge panic that I should have been at the top of a hill with my Dad watching an earth quake.....random, then I realised that's what I'd been dreaming as well as that I was in Rome/Japan and all my pounds had been turned into Monopoly money!!! Clearly I'm a little stressed!

So tomorrow my Dads going to drive me from Manchester to Heathrow where I will have an 8 1/2 hour flight onto Nairobi, have a 2 hr stop over in Nairobi, before an hour and 25min flight to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. I'll be in Dar for 2/3 nights and then need to catch another flight (bout 2 hours) to get to the District where I'll be living (you can see where this is on the map on my previous post).

It's all really exciting but also really quite daunting as well. The least thing I am looking forward to at the minute is trying to manoeuvre my luggage (as Its pretty heavy) I'm also worried that I'm going to start blubbering again as this has seemed to be my go to activity for the past few days! I really hope I manage keep it together.   

I'm looking forward to posting my first few pics on here and giving some update about what exactly I'm going to be doing.  I know I've 8 UK girls and 4 UK boys in my first volunteer group but thats all I know about them at the minute and also won't get any info about my Tanzanian volunteers until I arrive........

Watch this space for updates and will also post my Tanzanian phone number on here and how to contact me as soon as I get set up.

Chow for now!!!