Today's the Day!

After months of planning and coordinating we are finally at the threshold; our breaths held anxiously for the final plunge into international service. The main purpose of this blog is to invite friends, families and really anyone interested to follow our experiences during the trip. We hope to offer you a glimpse into our work constructing and installing bio-sand filters for impoverished communities and the beautiful Nicaraguan culture and landscape. We'll aim to post as frequently as we can. Additionally, we'll try to upload pictures and videos too. Each trip participant will also be expected to write at least one post so we can host a variety of different perspectives/attitudes and produce a more comprehensive processing of the entire experience, individually and collectively. Enjoy!

Tonight (well technically Saturday) morning, at 2:30am we depart from the Cube to Detroit Airport. Flying with American Airlines, our flight is scheduled to depart at 6:30am. We as college students are notorious for a "certain loose perception of promptness" so this will give us ample time to amble our way over. Anyways we fly to Miami for a 1.5 hour layover, then depart for Managua at 11:00 (about a two hour flight). Here's the flight itinerary:


2/6/2011
American Airlines #873

American Airlines #969

Depart

Detroit 6:30am

Miami 11:00am

Arrive 

Miami 930am

Managua 12:45pm on 2/26/2011

3/5/2011

American Airlines #970

American Airlines #390

Depart

Managua 1:55pm

Miami 7:35pm

Arrive

Miami 5:25pm

Detroit 10:40pm on 3/5/2011

Overall enthusiasm is at a fever pitch and our bags are packed (or in the process). Vaccinations have been completed, packing lists consulted, financing secured and ad hoc spanish hyperlearning instruction commencing! Midterms have cut a merciless swathe through our sanity, so it will also be nice to escape the University academic culture for awhile. Anyways we'll post again when we can.

Rotaract Out!