pre-packing thoughts

Less than two months before I leave. Rather freaky, to my way of thinking. I'm starting to make mental lists of what I should take with me, both clothing-wise and other things. I read emails from the peacecorps2 yahoogroup that tell me to buy a winter coat here in the US; I talk to someone who just got back from serving in the PC in Ukraine who tells me to buy it there. I try to imagine what sort of clothes I will want to wear for teaching, and what I will want for just hanging out.

And that's not even trying to decide what books to take...although, as someone on one of my email listservs pointed out, if there are 120 people in my group, we all bring 5 books each, and we trade books amongst ourselves, that's a lot of books. This is true...I just hope they have good taste in reading material.