One Month To Go!

Well, we've only got one month to go! We are making good progress:

• Rented the house for October 1.
  
• Sold the Van and the Computer.
  
• Found spots for almost all the big furniture.
  
• Started packing (summer clothes only so far).
  
• Gotten all our shots.

It's been quite a bit of work and lots of little details need to be taken care of. For instance, for our South Africa Visas, we need a chest X-Ray to show that we don't have TB. And we need a police report, and a Health Report signed by a doctor, etc etc.

We will be moving out of the house into Mom and Dad Wielers basement on Sept 24, which is less than two weeks away. A slight sense of panic has set in, but we are coping. A LOT of people have offered to help us out, which is great, and we are slowly starting to get to the point of needing help and being organized enough to figure out who can do what. I'm sure we will be fine by the time the 24th rolls around.

We now have all our travel details arranged. We will be leaving for Akron Pennsylvania on October 17 for two weeks of orientation. After orientation, we fly from Philadelphia to Atlanta on Nov. 2, overnight in Atlanta and then take a VERY LONG direct flight to South Africa. We leave Atlanta at 10:30 AM on Nov. 3, and arrived in Jo'berg at 10:45 AM the next day. We will be flying on a very big plane, an Airbus A340-600 (see picture).



By the way, C4L, the organization we are working with, has a canadian presence. Check out their web site here, they have some pictures from White River and some interesting background on the work of C4L.