Done!

I am officially an RPCV (aka jobless and homeless!), leaving Georgia for Egypt tomorrow with two volunteers! The past week we’ve been bumming around Adjara, living the easy life, hiking and sunbathing. The biggest decision we’ve had to make lately is how we want to spend our leisure time… there’s the beach, the park, getting an ice cream…

It’s nice not to have to tell Peace Corps where I am all the time but not so nice to be without the cushy medical care I’m used to. It seems like since I’ve been cut off, my body has decided to start falling apart. I have two allergic reactions on my neck (from falling in the bushes in Kazbegi) that look like massive hickies. I recently got rid of a non-symptomatic parasite and now I have another symptomatic one comfortably living inside my intestines and wrecking havoc about 4 times a day. I survived two years w/o a parasite so it would be just my luck to get one now… On top of that, my arms and fingers are swollen due to some sort of spider attack a couple nights ago.

It will be good preparation for India during monsoon season. I start to cringe just thinking about the creepy crawlers I’ll have to encounter. Egypt is going to be a treat as well, one of the hottest countries in the world during the hottest month of the year. What was I thinking!!!! :)