Every morning, even before I open my eyes, I am thinking about what the next 27 months of my life are going to look like in Africa. Some of you may know (and by some I mean no one because I have yet to publicize this blog's existence...) that I have accepted an invitation to join the Peace Corps as a Community/Public Health Advisor in Togo. My date of departure is rapidly approaching and the next month before I leave will probably be the most hectic month of my life. Today, I realized that in less than two weeks after I walk across the stage at graduation, I will be flying across the world to a new life in Africa. (That' is CRAZY!!)
Amidst all of my final midterms and exams and everything else I need to do school-wise before I leave, I literally think about the Peace Corps ALL THE DAMN TIME! Not an hour goes by in which I don't think about what my life will be like, who I will meet, what I will eat - yes, all of these questions cycle in an endless loop. I think what I'm looking forward to the most right now is meeting people that are going to be with me during training. Some of you all may know, I find "training events" to be highly enjoyable, and from what I gather from other peoples' blogs, the PC training is 10 weeks of FUN covering a multitude of topics ranging from "how to poo in a latrine" to filtering water and speaking french. (Luckily I have the latrine thing down. Thank you family vacations to Iran!)
All of my dreams are slowly becoming about the Peace Corps as well. I can only imagine what will happen when I'm on the malaria prophylaxis - which some say induces vivid dreams. That's a silver lining in my opinion.
Amidst all of my final midterms and exams and everything else I need to do school-wise before I leave, I literally think about the Peace Corps ALL THE DAMN TIME! Not an hour goes by in which I don't think about what my life will be like, who I will meet, what I will eat - yes, all of these questions cycle in an endless loop. I think what I'm looking forward to the most right now is meeting people that are going to be with me during training. Some of you all may know, I find "training events" to be highly enjoyable, and from what I gather from other peoples' blogs, the PC training is 10 weeks of FUN covering a multitude of topics ranging from "how to poo in a latrine" to filtering water and speaking french. (Luckily I have the latrine thing down. Thank you family vacations to Iran!)
All of my dreams are slowly becoming about the Peace Corps as well. I can only imagine what will happen when I'm on the malaria prophylaxis - which some say induces vivid dreams. That's a silver lining in my opinion.
