FInally, An Update!

First off, I must say my apologies for not updating for so long!
The truth is that 1st, I was VERY busy with training and 2nd, the internet at our training site was unbelievably slow! It took about ½ an hour to simply get into my email…
We had an intense 8 week training when we learned Swahili 8 hours a day 6 days a week and learned health/technical stuff as well. I finally finished training last week and got sworn-in as a Peace Corps Volunteer! Wohoo...
For my site I was place in the Morogoro Region. I am replacing a current volunteer who is finishing her 2 year service in 2 months. I arrived at site a week ago, and the next morning the volunteer left for vacation...so it took me a few days to realize what is where and how to get there, and one bumpy ride of the back of a pickup truck, squished between 10 other people and 2 bicycles! I wonder what the ride back would be like....
The nearest town is 5K from me, where I can find internet and other essential things like the market, bank and hospital. There is a large Roman Catholic population here.
So for the next 3 months I am not supposed to do much, just get adjusted into my community and get to know people...After that I hope I will start teaching HIV/AIDS education such as prevention and transmission in school and health clinics.
Ok, so that’s it for the update...I hope I will have more time with the internet here to update more often and with more detail…
SO thank you for reading, even though I haven’t updated for a while.