2 weeks

It is now 2 weeks until we leave. My friend is recovering and will be able to travel, and I am getting very excited.

I have been thinking about how many people have helped me to get this trip together: you have listened to me, encouraged me, challenged me and supported me. Some of the people I need to thank include a teacher from Parkview who put me in touch with Carolyn Vangurp in Sierra Leone, friends who are watching the menagerie while I am away, a friend who made a donation that will hopefully pay for medicine to take over and leave in Sierra Leone. As much as I am the one taking the journey, it has been a group effort and I couldn't have done it without you.

Other exciting news: I had ordered community health books back in February through Hesperian Books for Sierra Leone. After speaking to Carolyn I had them shipped directly to her through cdpeace in Mapaki. I was notified last week that the books had arrived 7 months after being shipped. It seemed remarkable that they made it after all this time and so I will make a presentation of them to the community when I arrive.

The picture is from a hike I took at Beaver Valley last weekend, Hogg's Falls trail. The colours were just beginning to change.