Getting closer

So it seems I've decided to go, specifically to Guatemala. I'm still waffling on Jamaica, mainly because it's an extra amount of money that might be very precious to me in the future. But I think it's important to me to know what it would be like to live and work in a community of rural poor.........whether that becomes Nicaragua, Guatemala, Africa...wherever. As opposed to my plan of more private living in Antigua and working in a project nearby.
Whatever floats your boat...........but I gravitate to both.
I am a fairly private person, however, so I'm headed for one, but going to investigate the other.

And then of course today I discover a way to get to Africa - and to Mali, my most recent choice.
For anyone who might be reading this there is: operationscrossroadsafrica.org. $3500 for 7 weeks/ and your airfare to Africa. And apparently a quality organization.
There is also www.idealist.org for anyone who wants to talk with other people interested in volunteering in the US or abroad.

Sort of a pragmatic post. I guess that's my mood today.
I'm excited to know that I'm actually going, but of course that involves many steps to extricate myself from this home of 25 years and 10 year job.................with all that means leaving.
I will most miss my connection with two groups of women, and my weekly Body Tales.
But you never know what I might be able to create.....wherever I go, and however long I'm gone.

Hasta....