July 3rd
is the big day for us. We leave Toronto at 7am and arrive in Miami later in the
afternoon where we will meet up with the other team leaders and head off to our
first destination,
Haiti (well we
actually fly into the Dominican Republic, then we’ll likely be bussing it over
to Haiti).

After receiving our departure date, we’ve been trying to see
as many people and say our
goodbyes.
We’ve been asked quite a few times “What are you taking with you?” as well as
“You’re taking all that in a backpack?”, and even the odd “You can’t take 2
suitcases?!”, we enjoy answering these questions but we knew there have to be a
better method to explain it.

Cinthia had the great idea of making a video displaying our packing list as well as how it all fits in our
backpacks. I hope you enjoy watching it, and if you’d like to see Cinthia’s
video, you can see it at her blog
here.

Also, note that we’re still required to raise another 30% (roughly $8,000) to be fully funded, if you feel called to partner with us,
please follow the link located on the
left
of the blog.

Anyways, without further ado…