no longer in Training!

Its official! I am a volunteer in Senegal! We swore in yesterday in Dakar and ate wonderful food and put on a funny skit after singing the national anthems. It was a good time. My host family said they saw me on national tv during the skit.. haha amazing! There are a few pictures up of the skit. It wasn't very good and i screwed up one of my 3 lines i had to memorize. But you are reading the blog of a famous toubab in africa!

So needless to say, it feels good to be a volunteer finally. We had a big dinner with one member of our family last night after getting back from Dakar at the training center and danced until after 1. They brought in a dj and we danced in an attempt to burn off some calories. There is this problem I have, as well as other city volunteers. We have many friends that are moving out into the bush and will serisouly lose weight since there are not proper nutrients available. Me, on the other hand, will be in a decent city of 25,000 but feel like I still need to eat the delishous food available for us at the training center. Oh well! Life is good!

So I will be moving to Bambey on Tuesday! I am getting rather nervous to meet my new family and get to know the entire town. I can't believe its actually happening though. Remember when I first came up with the idea to do the Peace Corps? It's going to be real now. Crazy!

Well check out my pictures and next time I write on here I should have a new address that you will have to send mail to. I'm bummed that I haven't got any lately.. you will have no excuses when I have a permenant address! :-) Love and miss you all!