Cutting Edge

I'm creating this blog to keep my friends and family up to date with my travels to Pohnpei, FSM this year.  FSM are the Federated States of Micronesia, of which Pohnpei is one.  Pohnpei is technically located in the Northern Pacific ocean just a few in latitude about the equator.  It's hot, tropical and extremely rainy.  Pohnpei doesn't have any beaches of which to speak; most of the island is surrounded by mangrove swamps.  There are the ancient ruins of Nan Madol, which are haunted and we will probably get cursed by going there. 

Trieste and I are leaving sometime in July for the following year to be teachers at the College of Micronesia.  I'll be teaching english and she'll be teaching math.  Our plan is to teach for a year with the possibility of staying longer, or coming back to the states to start school again.  

For the most part we are now just scurrying around to get everything wrapped up, passports updated, banking and cell phones cleared up, hugging the cat... but everyday we learn new things about the island and just get excited.  Well that's about it for now, but there will be more things as we get closer to our leave date.