Still in Pretoria

We are in Pretoria waiting for a new site. Peace Corps has some sites they are working on, so we are hopeful that something good will work out soon! Sorry for the lack of communication, but our (new) laptop is broken so we are again without a computer. Otherwise, things are good. We'll update as soon as we learn more.

And We're Out

So it’s finally official, we are leaving the Eastern Cape. It’s a somewhat long story and we’ll fill you all in soon, but here’s the current situation. Matt has a meeting on Friday in Pretoria for a Peace Corps committee that he serves on. So he was going to have to leave tomorrow night anyway to arrive Friday morning. Today Peace Corps told us that we should pack up our things and both come to Pretoria tomorrow. We will each travel with one bag and on Tuesday Matt will return with a Peace Corps driver to quickly pick up the rest of our belongings. After weeks of uncertainty and waiting, it’s been a very surreal day. The awkward part is that our NGO still has no idea that we are leaving. They have known for a few weeks that it’s been a possibility, but Peace Corps is not notifying them until Tuesday (as you can imagine this piece of news doesn’t always go over well, but fortunately our organization is too apathetic to care!).

So for the foreseeable future we will be Pretoria residents. It’ll be nice for the first few days but we are anxious to get started at a new site as soon as possible. We will let you know more later, but back to packing now.