Orientation

Ill try to make this fast bc i only have 9 mins left of internet and theres a mosquito flying around.  haha calm down i just took my malaria meds. anyways ill try to sum up my experience so far as quick as possible. forgive the misspelled words and typos.

got to philly for orientation there are 65 ppl in our training group weºre from all over the country! at orientation we talked about the importance of our awareness of our behavior bc we are representing our country and if we make a bad impression on someone we can ruin the reputation of our nation.  then we drive to nyc and hop on a 15 hour flight. it was crazy bc we left at 11 in the morning and i dozed off for about 2 hours and when i woke up it was completely black outside bc of the time zone change. WEIRD to experience thats for sure. 

as soon as we hopped off the plane the first thing i noticed was the smell.  it reeked.  then we drive thru maputo the capital and it looked like scenes from that wonderful movie ´´slumdog millionaire´´.  not kidding. 

i know earlier i said that i thought my biggest fear would be bugs.  im in a very nice hotel right now and havent really seen much but i am pretty sure that will be the least of my worries. im more worried about integrating into my community, and ive realized how hard it is to communicate in a foreign world, even with the portuguese that i do know.  ive been in training all day today and i felt myself getting homesick so i went and looked at pictures of all my friends and family back home.  i miss you all so very much. even tho im with many americans in my group its still hard because its not like we can grow close so fast.  please write and email me you have no idea how much it means to me.  anyway after i decided to stop moping around i went and had dinner w some new ppl and tried some octopus. it was alright, kinda chewy.  i might try it again for lunch tomorrow. for lunch today i had some fish and the fish here is not de-boned.  we have been spoiled on fish fillets in the states thats for sure.  i couldnt even finish my meal bc it was time for our meeting again and i couldnt finish picking out the bones.  then when i scraped all the meat off the bones i still found more small bones in the rest of the meat.  sucks. anyway i cant wait til tomorrow well be going to namaacha, a village where we will spend the next 10 weeks for pre service training.  it will be really intense for cultural and language training. wish me luck . anyway gotta go times almost up. i love you and miss you all so SO much!!

xoxo