Checking Out
hello hello hello.
So my time here in Mali is officially coming to a close on Friday. Last Tuesday we had a party in Madoubougou, and then on Thursday I left there for the last time. I had been bringing out my stuff a little at a time for the last month, and my host dad strapped the rest of it onto the back of his motorcycle. I drove my bike, and we went to the highway together to catch a bus to Sikasso. The goodbyes were kind of weird in a sort of anti-climatic way because an old lady had died the night before- everyone's mind was on that and I felt bad about taking off but we had everything ready to go so i just left. Very surreal really... I feel like I could just be going back tomorrow... but I won't :) Anyways I got to Sikasso just fine and now I've been in Bamako this week getting ready to go. Submitting final reports and getting papers signed and medical clearance, etc, etc, etc. Fun stuff.
Then on Saturday I start the road home... sort of :) First a group of us guys leaving PC together are taking a vacation down to Cote d'Ivoire. We'll be there 2 weeks, mostly just enjoying the beaches. We're leaving most of our stuff here in Bamako while we go to Cote, so I'll fly back here and spend 3 more days in Africa before finally heading to the States. I get to Washington, DC on September 23! I'll spend a week there with Kylee and see countless other RPCVs from Mali, so that should be fun. Then it's off to Grand Rapids, Michigan to see the newest Dr. McCann (my sister Michelle). Mom can't wait to see me, so she's going to meet us there, too :) After all that i head to Minneapolis on October 12 for a couple of weeks hanging out with Carrie P and everyone else that's ended up there (and anyone who just can't wait 'til i get to GF!) Then I'll head up to Grand Forks at the end of the month and will finally see good old North Dakota again in less then 2 months!
so... yeah. It's weird to be leaving this place that has become like home and so many friends and so many things I thought I'd be happy to leave but now know I'll miss... but I'm excited to see everyone in the States and to see what lies ahead on the road... and I'm terrible at endings but this is the end of this blog and I don't know what else to say except... see ya around!
So my time here in Mali is officially coming to a close on Friday. Last Tuesday we had a party in Madoubougou, and then on Thursday I left there for the last time. I had been bringing out my stuff a little at a time for the last month, and my host dad strapped the rest of it onto the back of his motorcycle. I drove my bike, and we went to the highway together to catch a bus to Sikasso. The goodbyes were kind of weird in a sort of anti-climatic way because an old lady had died the night before- everyone's mind was on that and I felt bad about taking off but we had everything ready to go so i just left. Very surreal really... I feel like I could just be going back tomorrow... but I won't :) Anyways I got to Sikasso just fine and now I've been in Bamako this week getting ready to go. Submitting final reports and getting papers signed and medical clearance, etc, etc, etc. Fun stuff.
Then on Saturday I start the road home... sort of :) First a group of us guys leaving PC together are taking a vacation down to Cote d'Ivoire. We'll be there 2 weeks, mostly just enjoying the beaches. We're leaving most of our stuff here in Bamako while we go to Cote, so I'll fly back here and spend 3 more days in Africa before finally heading to the States. I get to Washington, DC on September 23! I'll spend a week there with Kylee and see countless other RPCVs from Mali, so that should be fun. Then it's off to Grand Rapids, Michigan to see the newest Dr. McCann (my sister Michelle). Mom can't wait to see me, so she's going to meet us there, too :) After all that i head to Minneapolis on October 12 for a couple of weeks hanging out with Carrie P and everyone else that's ended up there (and anyone who just can't wait 'til i get to GF!) Then I'll head up to Grand Forks at the end of the month and will finally see good old North Dakota again in less then 2 months!
so... yeah. It's weird to be leaving this place that has become like home and so many friends and so many things I thought I'd be happy to leave but now know I'll miss... but I'm excited to see everyone in the States and to see what lies ahead on the road... and I'm terrible at endings but this is the end of this blog and I don't know what else to say except... see ya around!
posted by Rob McCann at 1:36 PM
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