I made it!

Sooo.... i made it and everything went smoothly during travel. We got here on Wednesday and have been super busy ever since. Not much has really happened except a lot of class and lectures. Just to let everyone know..... ITS SOOOO HOTT!!! It is the end of the rainy season and i have heard that this is the worst time of the year for the weather. Its hot and extremely humid. I have been showering 3 times a day. Everyone around here changes clothes throughout the entire day because of sweat. Hopefully in the next few weeks the humidity will subside. Sitting through classes and listening to the Peace Corps mission statement over and over and over in the heat hasnt been the greatest but tomorrow things will be changing! We finally have language classes.

We have about 40 people in our stage and everyone seem pretty cool. We have had several volunteers from other stages come back to help with our training. They have been very helpful. We have all been hanging out quite a bit. We finish with class at around 6 each day and then dont have much to do until class starts back up the next day. Lets just say there is a lot of sitting around getting to know each other. Today was our first day off so we finally got to go into town and look around. I feel like they are really sheltering us. Im slightly annoyed that we have been here for days and have had no chance to contact our families to let them know we made it ok. I have already done the whole village thing and we never had anyone to walk us through everything so i am feeling like all of these classes are a little redundant but i can see that some thing that we have learned are important....yesterday i learned how to poop in a med kit to check for parasites! It was pretty funny actually AND we also learne that we are all gonna poop our pants atleast once! lol more on that later.
Anyway... we are having class on Monday and then Tuesday moving out to our villages. I found out i will be speaking Sereere ?? in my village. I dont know a word of it and havent had any language classes so far so i think its going to suck majorly for the first few days in village. Keep in mind, no one speaks English!! I think we are learning basic phrases tomorrow in class. Tuesday is my birthday so im looking forward to starting a new year in a village. I have "heard" where i am going to be placed but wont know for sure until the end of Sept. I think i LOVE everything i have heard about it so far. I am pretty sure its just south of Thies and Dakar. I think here is less muslim families and more catholics in that region so it seems like it is a little more relaxed. Im hoping its as cool as what i have been told.

Sooo all in all everything is going well and i am looking forward to the week coming up. Wish me luck!!