Philly

I 'm currently in Philadelphia and today I proudy completed my Peace Corps staging. We have a big group and I've already met a lot of great people and have been told we are a great group. I'm going to keep this entry short as I am very tired and will have alot of traveling to do tommorow. But tomorrow we will be leaving for South Africa (finally in Africa yes!!) and we will get to the real nuts and bolts of our training. It's weird, I feel like I have already been in a Philly doing staging for a week but it's only been a few days, today when we ended training I felt like I knew our Staging officials for a long time!! Well I'll ttyl!

Thanks & Good Bye while I'm Training

Well my computer was finally fixed so now I can finally say thanks to everyone who came to my going away party, it feels great to have so much support and also don't worry about me, I'll make it back safe and sound I promise.

I finally have 99% of my belongings packed away either at my Dad's house or in Scott's basement, now I just have to figure out how to cram two years of my life into two small suitcases. Today I'll be going back to Viola to see my Dad and that will be the last time I'm in Viola for quite awhile. Tomorrow I will be going with Kate, Bearclaw, my Mother and Scott to the Renaissance fair in Shakopee and then afterwards to dinner with Kate's parents Steve and Debbie. Then it's off in the morning...that will be kind of hard but not so bad when you think about how fast two years will fly by and how it's not a "I'll never see you again goodbye" but "I'll see you later goodbye".

My address during training (till December) if you want to send me a letter (please do!!!) will be

Luke Wenzel, PCT
Peace Corps
C.P. 4398
Maputo, Mozambique

Please number your letters for tracking purposes and write
“Airmail” and “Par Avion” on the envelopes.
I have also heard that drawing some religious symbols on the letter helps as well to get them delivered....but don't go overboard on that!!!

I'll try and update as soon as I get a chance to, but that may be a few months after I leave.

Busted Computer and Itinerary

Well I haven't been on here lately as my computer decided to spontaneously start shutting down on Monday so I had to take it in to a local place to get it fixed (right now I'm on Kate's computer). But my itinerary is as follows
Sept. 28th Flight leaves from Minneapolis at 6:50a
to
Detroit @ 9:36a (probably later since flights are never EVER on time)
Switch planes and fly out at 10:06
to
Philly arriving at 11:44a.
Then I guess I am supposed to get myself to my hotel and check, where I will find info about the start of my staging at 1pm that day. It looks like it will be some pretty intense booked stuff straight through until Tuesday when we are to check out that morning and get to JFK for our flight to Johannesburg, South Africa (it's a 17h 40 min flight), arriving Wednesday. Thursday then we will finally be flying to Maputo, Mozambique YAY!!

Until then I still need to pack up all of my belongings and give away/ sell a bunch of it to my brothers...

Hurry up!

I received my staging info and it looks like I will be leaving Minneapolis at 6:50am (means I have to get up even earlier) and then will land in Detroit, switch planes, and then end up in Philly 11ish. I had better get all my stuff together and start packing soon huh.