Adventures

Last night was the beginning of what I know will be many interesting adventures! We went to a Mzungu (foreigner—or basically “white people”) bar last night where they were playing a movie on a giant screen. On our way home the van said it could fit ten, little did we know that meant four of the seats were on TOP of the van! I was too tired to be that adventurous but Matt sat up there and loved it!

So today was our second day of orientation before we start our placements tomorrow. We had the chance to meet the people in charge of our placements at lunch today and I am SO excited to get started. Stephen and I are going to be volunteering at Hope Nursery School (Matt at Magareza Daycare). Our nursery school is pretty new, only one year old, and this is the first session of volunteers they have had from CCS. We met with the two heads of the school and their 1 ½ year old baby and the placement sounds great. We are pretty lucky too because they speak very good English so we will be able to communicate well. Although I am still trying to learn and practice as much Swahili as I can. I realized I am a huge language nerd (I know surprise surprise) because I am loving picking apart all the words and figuring new stuff out and most of the other people were bored to death during the Kiswahili lesson. Ok off to sleep-Miss you all!

Amani,

Valerie