Though the trip is still quite a bit of a ways away, (there will be a lot of teaching to be done in those weeks, lots of questions to be answered, and maybe a bit of pounding my head against the smartboard) the preparation continues.

I file this one under the “better safe than sorry” column.  While I wouldn’t call myself a very prepared person, I am trying to change that.  There could be tons of worse things, but one small annoying thing that would become a big negative on the trip would be to get a painful blister.