In the beginning...

Oi~ (Portuguese for hello!)

On the 20th of January, I begin my biggest adventure yet. After 38 hours in transit, (@_@) I will arrive in Maputo, Mozambique, where, through the program United Planet-International Youth Cultural Exchange, I will be living and working for six months. I will be living with a host family, the Gaves, a mother, father, twin eleven-year-old boys and a six-year-old daughter. My job posting is with a charity organization called REMAR (look 'em up on the web!), and I have the pleasure to be working with 0-5 year-olds at an orphanage in the same neighborhood as where I'll be staying. Woohoo for more public transit. Every day. Awesome. At least this won't be another three busses to CHS every morning.

I'll be keeping this blog as regularly as I can, but I'm not sure what kind of access I'll have to a computer. However, I now get email on my phone, so feel free to contact me at allie.unisus@gmail.com No, this is not facebook. Nor is it myspace. Drag your old hotmail account out of the trash and dust it off, because chances are I won't be able to check my fb. So there.


For all that I'm leaving... I'll be back! Perhaps not immediately, my return ticket goes as far as Frankfurt and from there I have options, but I shall return! I have been accepted to Western Washington University, Cal State Northridge and Washington State University at Pullman so far, and I have a few applications pending. However, if there is one thing I am good at doing, it is being flexible about the future.

I'll miss you all and think of you often, so tchau, e um abracao forte.

Allie