End of September Check-in

September has raced by. Things are pretty good. My schedule at school is fairly relaxed and I have a lot of time to start doing the little things necessary to move. Things like going through my books and deciding which ones I'm going to lug back to the peace corps office for other volunteers to read, and which ones I'll just donate to my school.

Things with Roma have been good, most of the time. Each week has had its ups and downs, which is to be expected I suppose, when a departure date looms. Truthfully, I'm not sure how much longer he'll be able to keep seeing me. Each week seems to get more and more taxing for him. We'll see. I love him and I just want to be able to part of friendly terms.

Most of my focus these days has been on getting my cats home. This will involve a trip to the vet mid-october. Sharece has agreed to help me get my cats to Kiev when the time comes. It should be interesting.

The most exciting news of late is that I have a plane ticket home. My brother will arrive in Kiev on November 18th. We will spend the 19th and the 20ths seeing the sites, and then on the 21st, we fly home.

I know that I'm leaving very soon, but it still feels far away. There are so many loose ends for me to tie up at my site, and so much paperwork for me to fill out for peace corps. I can't believe that I've been here for two years. It's all very surreal at this point. Past that, I don't really have anything to report. I just wanted to check in say that things are going well and in LESS THAN TWO MONTHS (!) I'll be back in the states.