Contacting Us

There have been a few questions before we leave about contacting Stacey and I while we are abroad and we haven't been able to answer everyone directly so I thought I would post an entry to help explain while a slight bout of insomnia prevents me from sleeping. When we leave for Peace Corps there is actually a two month home stay/training period before we start our assignment. This will take place just north of Kampala and will be a temporary stop. Since it is not a permanent stay and mailing can take a couple weeks Peace Corps provides an address at their main office for our mail when we are training. Because we won't know how much communication we will have about when we move or where our next address is we are going to have people funnel mail through our parents.

We will stay in contact with them as well as possible and they will have our temporary address. We will also let them know when they need to hold mail while we move so letters aren't on hold for 6 months when we don't have time to go to Kampala to pick them up. Depending on our scenario we may or may not give out our address later, but there are a couple things you can do to help with this process.

Please number your letters to us so we can inquire if there seems to be a gap in communications. Also add dates so we can roughly check how long it takes for delivery and we can give you a warning about how long it may take. If you want to send us something besides a letter, put it in a mailing bag. Mailing bags are less likely to be searched than boxes which means things are less likely to be stolen. If mailing seems to difficult, use the computer!

On this blog you can post comments or get our email addresses to talk to us directly. We also have the facebook group and we have skype as well. Skype is under Stacey's name and you can do a search for her in the program after you download it. We do not know how frequently we will have internet, but we will update as often as possible.