Thursday, 31 May 2007

twelve days and counting

We leave for Vanuatu in less than two weeks... we still have a bit of a to-do list to work through but basically we're feeling ready to go. Its been a long time coming and I think we're in danger of doing a bit of a tony blair style farewell tour and people thinking 'havent they gone yet?' We applied to VSO in november and got the placements in Vanuatu confirmed in April so we've had quite a lot of time to get prepared.
We leave on 13th June and arrive in Port Vila on 15th June losing our first wedding anniversary sometime between departure and arrival. I think our first week will be the VSO organised 'in-country training' where hopefully we will find out a bit more about our jobs, where we are going to live and how to basically sort our lives out in Vanuatu. I think we will also get some language training, apparently Bislama is reasonably easy to pick up...