Last week I sent a text to Danielle to remind her we were just 60 days away from leaving, and her response became the title of this post. It pretty much sums it up - shock, excitement, and panic. We still have a ton to do. Our flights keep getting canceled, we have organizations to contact, guide books to read, research to do, vaccines and visas to get, and in my case I still need to figure out whether or not to apply to medical schools this year, study for the MCAT and potentially put together a resume, CV, letters of recommendation, etc. And all this on top of both of us working/going to school full time. I'm also taking Krav Maga at the insistence of my parents, who were already freaking out about the trip before Yemen decided to make headlines as a terrorist threat, just days after we bought our ticket from Nairobi to Europe via Yemen. We'll need to figure out if our flights are going to be canceled, as many flights from Yemen to Germany have been recently, or if we want to keep our 3 hour Yemen layover to save a few hundred bucks.
But Danielle's been super productive, and made some cool-looking shirts as a fundraiser for our trip. Take a look at dannyliz.etsy.com.
