I'm coming home....

but not before one last adventure in Cape Town this weekend. I am keeping my fingers crossed that we have no flight issues this weekend.

I have had a stomach bug for almost the last week and am concerned that I have giardiasis. I am hoping it doesn't ruin my weekend or cause me to have to start metronidazole. (All you pharmacists out there know why I wouldn't want to have to start the medicine this weekend).

It is amazing how at the end of your stay anywhere, your perceptions on the people you have met and experiences you have had changes. This is especially true of this trip. I think this is because i worked the whole time I was here. So, I had to deal with the normal frustrations and stress of any work environment. This caused me to have some bad moods the last couple of weeks (Jackie and kathleen can atest to this!) and have some days where I really just wanted to be back home. But now that my work is at an end, i have to say that I have really enjoyed my time here and will miss the people I have met. There are just some really really good people working in the CDC-Mozambique office. (They know who they are!)

The office had a going away happy hour for me last evening and people have been making a poitn of telling me good bye. It is amazing how you can think you didn't really help people, but in the end you still leave an impression on them (just like they have left an impression on me).

I won't get too sappy here. Instead back to Cape Town plans. (Can you tell I am super excited about this weekend??) Tomorrow, we are heading to Robben Island, then probably Table Mountain, and dinner at the waterfront. Saturday, we are doing an all day tour...Cape of Good Hope, the penguins, etc. We decided since we only had two and half days that we had to maximize our time and doing a guided tour was probably the best option for us even though Cape Town is supposedly easy to get around.

I come back to the office here Monday am for a brief meeting with my IETA supervisor and then off for my long flight back to the states.