Leaving on a jet plane

I'm all packed. My uni assignment was completed and handed in a couple of hours ago (i'm a bit of a last minute sorta person). My kindle has 35 books on it, and six documents about HIV, for the health education workshops i'll be doing. I saw my last movie at the cinema last night, for a while. I'm getting very nervous, about the horrible flight plan and the unknown of Malawi and nursing over there. I will update this as much as possible but I'm not sure what my internet situation will be like. My brain feels all frazzled, so this may be a little disjointed. Need to leave in 45minutes so I am going to go be sociable with my mum and sisters and eat some baguette.

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