One week… It's hard to believe sometimes that I'm moving to Botswana next week. It's just such a surreal sentence. Someone asked me what I was doing next week and that was my response. Just.. what? Anyway, last week I was feeling really panicked and anxious about going, but so far this week I've been feeling optimistic and thrilled to be starting this new part of my life. I know that no matter what, even if I don't buy every single item I want to take with me or have the perfect packing list or manage to fit everything in my bags, I will still get on a plane and join the Peace Corps. It really takes the edge off of all the obsessing I've been doing. Hopefully I'll manage to keep this calm and positive outlook until my departure, but who knows. Peace Corps isn't called an emotional roller coaster for nothing.
So, I've decided to post a before, during, and after of my packing process. I'm hoping to have almost all of my shopping and packing done by Friday so that I can have the weekend to just relax and hang out with my family. Here's my
before of my bags and some of the things I've been buying over the last few weeks:
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