First post from Mauritania!! We all flew into Atlanta Tuesday night and spent wednesday and thursday meeting everyone and learning alot of the PC Mauritania basics. Then we took a direct flight from Atlanta to Senegal and made a 7 hour bus ride across the border to Mauritania. As promised, it is HOT and very very sandy. Our PST (pre service training) site is in Rosso, along the river that borders Senegal in southern Mauritania. So for now there's about 80 of us hanging out in a compound of cement buildings and sand learning the basics about being a PCV in mauritania. Lots of shots, getting used the food, learning the basic greetings in all the local languages, interviewing with our bosses so that they can best place us and figuring out how to go to the bathroom without toilets and toilet paper. use your imagination...
its been kind of difficult getting use to all the changes but the other trainees are all sooo great. we all slept in the sand under the stars last night (in our free-standing mosquito nets of course) and finally were about to explore Rosso today. Im nervous about leaving the training center and most the trainees in a few days to go to my homestay but excited to really start living the PC life here. one of the good things i found out is that while we are living with our homestays for the rest of PST (until im sworn in august 28th) is that there will be between 3-5 other trainees living right near me so i wont be all alone (yet!).
so thats it for now! in case you didnt notice, the price for sending me a letter is now 94 cents instead of 41 or whatever the guy from the post office told me before. Id love to hear from everyone! for the next few weeks i wont have regular access to the internet so your well wishes via hand-written things would be great! and a wish list will be posted soon too (ive already thought of a ton of things!). For now candy (non melting) is always a plus!
its been kind of difficult getting use to all the changes but the other trainees are all sooo great. we all slept in the sand under the stars last night (in our free-standing mosquito nets of course) and finally were about to explore Rosso today. Im nervous about leaving the training center and most the trainees in a few days to go to my homestay but excited to really start living the PC life here. one of the good things i found out is that while we are living with our homestays for the rest of PST (until im sworn in august 28th) is that there will be between 3-5 other trainees living right near me so i wont be all alone (yet!).
so thats it for now! in case you didnt notice, the price for sending me a letter is now 94 cents instead of 41 or whatever the guy from the post office told me before. Id love to hear from everyone! for the next few weeks i wont have regular access to the internet so your well wishes via hand-written things would be great! and a wish list will be posted soon too (ive already thought of a ton of things!). For now candy (non melting) is always a plus!
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