3/9/84

Labor day! I'm laboring to get going. We've made it to September! Another “autumn” season in St Vincent. It's been incredibly warm. Very little rain. Very little breeze. Looking back in the journal, not much was said about the heat last year at this time. But I remember it! Still nights…Ah, well. Just 10 days and we’ll be ‘cooling out’ in Europe. The dock strike in England is still on so that may ‘nix’ our plans to go to England. We may change our plans and hang around France and, perhaps briefly visit the Netherlands. I'm beginning to realize that this could be more of a by-ear thing than we expected. But I don't mind. I just plan to relax (as much as possible) and take in the sights. This whole trip is GRAVY. I suppose no one would believe that PC is so ‘tough’ when you can save $2,500 (U.S.) over two years and holiday in Europe. But we have scrimped and saved to go. Cut corners and have held off on other stuff to pull this off. I think we deserve it!!

Still haven't heard from WESTAM on our return flight to the U.S. on December 1st (less Than 3 months now). With this being Labor Day (U.S.) the Peace Corps Office is closed. No mail until tomorrow. We wrote many letters this weekend. Catching up on missed correspondence. I still have to complete my SF-171, write a project proposal for the future M.I.U., get a quarterly report off to Van, finish my SAV ‘training manual’ and a host of other odds and ends before we leave for Europe. I guess I better get started….