Can we leave in June?

Right now the current Peace Corps buzz at the Smith & Rodriguez residence is thinking about what we can do to make ourselves ready to prepare to accept an nomination leaving in June 2006. Will we have finals? Will we be able to choose units that finish up in early June? What is the earliest we can be ready to leave in June? I know I will have no finals, as I'm only doing a major tranaslation project which I can arrange to have turned in by June 2 (the last day of classes for Semester 1 2006), but Will has no idea when he will be done. He speculates that he can arrange to not have any finals if needed. We're ready to change everything around to leave as early as July 14ish 2006. We can pack things up here and fly out of Australia on the 4th, arrive in America on the 4th or 5th (I hear you arrive in America the very same day you left, because you are travelling back in time and therefore recover the day that disappeared when flying to Australia), unpack, visit with family and whichever friends are left behind, buy stuff we'll need, repack and head out-- all in 10 days. Beat that!

When we moved to Australia we packed as if we would have moved away forever. We got rid of or stored everything we didn't want/need/use anymore and packed our lives in our suitcases- 2 suitcases and a backpack. And we don't even need all of the stuff we have here. Packing again will be easy. After having packed for so many 6- 15 month trips, you know how to pack and how not to. What to bring, what not to bring, what you will use and what you most likely won't.

In response to our "Can we leave in June" flurry, this is where we may get to go based on unofficial sources with our first choice assignements of TEFL and Environmental Education:

Armenia
Mongolia
China
Bulgaria
Romania

(surely, there must be more options.)