I leave tonight. Still packing, but not much left to do now. I think once I board that plane I will in part feel a huge sense of relief - everything's packed, everything is as organised as its going to get (if not, too late), and as the AYAD bureacrats say: until we're on that plane, we're not actually guaranteed our placement due to the often volatile nature of the countries that we are going to work in. Had two going away things this week. One from my work at MADASSIA, and one last night with the cinema. But going to those things was kind of surreal...this whole week has been. I still don't really believe that as of tomorrow night I will be in Bangladesh, and whats more will be there for a year. Last
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