One week to go
By Lindsay We are rapidly heading towards Tuesday 7th June, when we leave this fair Isle and fly to Juba, to meet our new team, colleagues and friends, and start working with Medair. The prep has gone pretty well - there has been quite a few jabs, medical checks, bloodwork, a Resilience consultation (I loved mine - so many helpful tips of how to cope well!), tons of emails and a huge amount of help from Medair. We are almost packed up and ready to hand over our house to the lovely Anna and Julia who will be staying while we are away. The emotion of leaving / arriving in South Sudan has not particularly hit me yet. Trying to imagine life somewhere different is always hard, and all I can really think about is leaving here well, and then we have about 12 hours of travel to mentally prepare arriving somewhere very new where everything (for me at least) is unknown. We have said quite a few goodbyes to friends, and yet I think the weight of leaving friends and familiarity will probably hit