The time has come....

I am currently sitting at the Newark airport patiently waiting to board my flight to Amsterdam and then on to Tanzania.  It has already been a long day...For those of you who know me, I tend to be unlucky when it comes to airports.  My flights are usually delayed, bags have been left on the wrong continent, etc. So of course as I prepared to leave for the airport I knew something would probably go wrong.  And without fail, I managed to have a little mishap.  I have brand new lugguage for Tanzania (we were given weird lugguage dimension rules) and one of them had a TSA lock built in.  I read the directions thoroughly but somehow managed to make a mistake resetting the code and as a result I locked myself out of my own suitcase.  Imagine my panick as I left for the airport unable to open one piece of luggage!!! LUCKILY, I met a very nice TSA officer who took time off of his break to get the special TSA key and open the bag for me.  Unfortunately that key did not work!  The guy was so nice and went back into their break room to get a different key and thankfully that did the trick.  I was able to open my bag and used a separate lock that I was positive I knew how to work.

I am not sure what my internet situation will be like when I arrive in Tanzania, so this may be my last post for a while.  We will arrive in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday night (there is a 7 hour time difference from my home in Michigan) and then our intense 3 month training will begin....