YOU ARE DOING WHAT?!!

LEAVING TOMORROW!!! I can't believe it! It has come extremely quickly. I am actually almost already packed and it's only 4:00pm! I have almost another 24 hours!! haha. I got a chance to chat with a few friends who just got back from Calcutta. They were there a couple months as well. They all had incredible stories and helpful advice. I'm feeling a bit nervous but also very excited.

So just to provide you with a brief description of what exactly I will be doing in the next 3 months...I will give you pretty much all that I know. I will be assisting on a project in Community and Child Health at Social Welfare Institute (SWI) in a small village called Raiganj (approximately 6 hours North of Calcutta). The project title is “Children’s Immunization, We Need Help.” I will also be assisting in teaching a spoken English class to college students, helping with documentation for the organization, volunteering with Missionaries of Charity with the orphaned children and sick children, assisting in the health section of SWI, helping Mother Teresa sisters in distributing free medicines to the poor, and many other miscellaneous tasks that I’m asked to help with while I am there. We are also getting an opportunity to travel around a little bit. I am there with two of my very close friends from Western (Andrea and Scott) as well as a few students from Seattle University who I haven't met yet. That's it for now...I have about two days of traveling ahead of me...I'm flying straight from Seattle to London then to Calcutta then finally taking a train up to Raiganj. Please keep us all in your thoughts and prayers. :) I will be checking my e-mails (erin.pflueger@gmail.com)and would love to hear from each of you as well and I will do my best to update this blog as often as possible.