September 19 2008

I know many have been egging me for more info. For now Ive been trying to keep my mind occupied. For those with kids of your own try to imagine leaving your kids on the other side of the planet with people your not sure you can trust, unable to communicate to one of them why you have to leave them , not sure when you will see them again (except that it will be at least 3 months). Then on top of that you cant communicate with them to see how they are doing. I know its hard to believe our short time with them we were able to get that attached, but I assure you that is the case. However, when I can emotionally, I will get back to updating the rest of the story.

Getting paper work completed has been nearly impossible. You would be amazed at how difficult it has been to get paper work from different individuals, my HR department, various orginizations. The typical response is we cant do that or we cant give that to you notarized. Of the whole process this has been by far the most difficult. Always having in the back of your mind that things wont move foward until you complete this. But at the same time everyone telling you they can't, can definetly make you feel a little crazy at times. After spending nearly 3 weeks gathering the paper work I was told that most of it had errors and would have to be redone. Yesterday I completed all the paper work for hopefully the last time and it is finally out of my hands. Return to some sanity? We shall see.....

Thanks so much to everyone that worked on letters of reference and quickly had them redone and back to me in such a short time.