Touchdown in Swaziland!

Wowza! So I made it! I made it to Swaziland! The flights were rather uneventful, but MAN was the trip long! I started in Philadelphia and met up with Aunt Ann, Auntie Jen, and Uncle Dill for a day before our Peace Corps “staging” event. It was so wonderful to see them and was absolutely the perfect send off. (Thanks again guys!) So far everything has gone pretty well. My group of volunteers down here is really cool. There are 41 of us, mostly in our mid 20’s but there are also a few retired people.

We are at a training center in Matsphasa right now where we get to spend four nights (yessss!). It is basically a hotel - 2 beds and 2 volunteers to a room, hot showers, space heaters, electricity, etc... I know I shouldn’t get used to it, but man am I enjoying it! I believe we will move to our training communities on Sunday... Or is it Monday? Then it’s bucket baths and hauling water from there on out. We didn’t really have any settling in time. We got to the center about 5:45pm Thursday and had dinner at 6. We got to our rooms a little after 7 and had a little time to unpack and shower before passing out cold. But then we met at 7am sharp to begin training on Friday morning and it is all business from there on out. 7am-7pm six days a week we will be in training and I guess there is stuff we’ll have to do on Sundays too, but I don’t know what yet. 

As you can see, there is (sometimes) internet at the training center, but since we are leaving here in a couple days, I am not sure when I will be able to get on and update you again, but I will sure try!

Thanks for keeping up with me!!!

Pictures to come...