9 weeks later…

One word to describe:
- these past two weeks:  hectic
Lots of language classes (to prep for the exam), our final language exam (to make sure we won’t die in our villages), the goodbye dinner with my host family (pretty self-explanatory), the Peace Corps barbeque (meeting all the current staff and volunteers), the auction and after-party (to [...]

Sai hankuri…

Last week I finally got to visit the site where I will spend my two years of service in Niger.  After a quite engaging 14 hour-long bus ride (part of which was spent next to a chicken, sai hankuri…) our addition of newbie volunteers was received by the team of current volunteers in Zinder .  [...]