We leave in 6 days!!! In less than a week from today we will be heading to Philly to meet the rest of the Peace Corps volunteers going to Tanzania. I think it will be about 35 or 40 people in our training group. We will all spend one day in Philly for "Staging" where they prepare us for the journey to Tanzania. They give us a few shots and then we are off.
We are traveling by bus the following day (June 15) to JFK airport, and then we fly to Zurich, Switzerland and on to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. We will spend our first 2 months in "Training" living with a host family in a village outside of Dar es Salaam. In training we learn about the Tanzanian culture, about safety issues, and about how to speak the language- Swahili (the language in the Lion King- Hakuna Matata). We will be eating a lot of rice & beans along with another staple in their diet- Ugali (corn mush)....yummm! I'm sure we will also be taking a number of bucket/sponge baths, as it is likely that there will not be running water or electricity.
We already have our tickets, and so now the packing fun begins.
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