Hello to my friends, family, and those interested in the life of a simple volunteer. I'm about to take what I consider the second hardest and most rewarding trip of my life. My hardest trip or adventure if you will, started back in January 2005, when along with 64 other volunteers left for a country called Uzbekistan. The country was amazing. But after 3 months of training and one month of service the Uzbek government refused to issue us vista's. We were then evacuated back to the states were I recently accepted an invitation to leave for Gambia. I'm leaving just over one month after being evacauted.