It's official!

I have my Guinean visa; it's official, I'm going to Guinea! I feel much better having my passport and immunization record back in hand, along with my new Guinean visa, which tells someone on the other end to let me into their country. Fortunately, I think the visa speaks better French than I do, since I don't even know how to say "Let me into your country." I don't even know "country" for that matter. Now I just need to find a safe spot to put everything where I'll remember it.

My packing is coming along. I've managed to collect a decent number of skirts to wear while I'm over there, and if I don't have enough, I've heard you can find clothing fairly cheaply. Thankfully some of the missionaries in the field already supplied me with a packing list, so I'm trying to go through it and figure out what I still need. Soon I get to figure out how to cram all of what I want to take into two 50-lb bags. It feels a little strange and yet freeing at the same time trying to simplify my life down to 2 bags.

I don't have much other news for now since I'm still in Midland, but for those of you who are interested in keeping up with me while I'm over in Guinea, I will try to post back to this blog on a regular basis as well as send out occasional email updates. If you'd like to be on the email list, please email kelsey_hill @ ntm.org (without the spaces), and I'll add you to the list. Otherwise, I'll see you back here once I've got some news from Guinea.