Heading to Tanzania!!!!!

Hey guys!!! This is going to be my little blog for while Im teaching secondary science in Tanzania as a Peace Corps volunteer for the next 2 years. This is not going to replace email-just the bulkier information part-and to let my mom realize I am alive-just kidding mom Ill write every hour every day-


Sooooo today is Thursday and Im leaving on Sunday for Tanzania. Sooo excited!! Well, not quite sunday, on sunday Im going a whole 22 minutes into Philly for Peace Corps "staging" aka orientation. Then after some vaccinations, malaria meds, and other "orientation" type activities, the rest of the peace corps peeps and I will be on our way to Tanzania on Tuesday (I still dont know where we are going in Tanzania-and Im pretty sure they havent told us-unless I completely missed something). And that will be the beginning of three months of TRAINING in Tanzania where, from what I understand, we will live with a host fam, have intensive Swahili lessons, try to learn the ropes of life in Tanzania, and hopefully work on the teaching thing.

Speaking of teaching-it could be chemistry and/or biology and possibly physics/math... At first when I heard physics/math I was like "eeeeeeek" - but then I remembered they were both my favorite subjects in high school-so I think that could be cool too. I also will be teaching in English, however Ive kind of heard I should be prepared to do some English tutoring along the way, but I really have no idea at this point. Also, Ill be speaking Swahili the rest of the time (or at least trying very hard to) for the next 2 years. Ill be back Decemberish '09.

So that is the basics-... and im looking at the pile of clothes (some skirts and shirts) on my bedroom floor right now (along with the HUGE mess Im gonna try to clean up by Sunday), and the other supplies that Im going to try and fit into my backpack....should be interesting...