Test Post

My first post! It is Sunday night, and I leave for Atlanta on Tuesday morning.  After a two day staging event there, I fly to Senegal and then take a bus to Mauritania.  Not very much of interest to post on here yet...I have spent the last few days buying things on my packing list, which have included a mosquito net, vegetable seeds, duct tape, and four pounds of Gatorade mix.  I am not typically very good at keeping a journal (and so probably, by extension, a blog), but I will try to update this enough to make it worth reading during the next two years!