Back to Southern Africa I go!

Welp, it looks like I'm headed back to Southern Africa for my two-year stint with Peace Corps! I'm going to Namibia! I really was not expecting to be assigned there considering the nomination I got a year ago was to teach English in a French-speaking country in Sub-Saharan Africa. I leave for orientation August 19th and start in-country training August 21st -- two days before my 23rd birthday! During my eight week in country training I'll get language training, professional training, culture training and snake-killing training (I hope). Then I'll be assigned a village and a host family with whom I'll live for three months, and I get two weeks of teacher training in my school, then it's two years plunked down in a rural Namibian village.

I have three months to get ready and say goodbye to everyone I know, which I know are going to fly by, so if you want to see me before I leave make plans (I'll be at NYC Pride June 28th to start)! I also have to start packing and ahhhhh I have NO idea where to begin. Help help help!!!

So, yeah this blog is going to be where I update on my life and adventures while abroad so you can read and comment and not forget that I exist, thought I'd start it now so y'all could get an idea of the Peace Corps process from the relative beginning (I started the application over a year and a half ago now, and got my nomination June 11, 2008, so yeah, relative beginning).

Love love,

Ems