French pronunciations have failed me and I have been mispronouncing "Thies" for a few months now, oops! Anyway, tomorrow I fly out for Thies and will be in the air/waiting at airports for about 2 days straight. We land in Dakar around 9:40 pm, then have customs and a 2 hour ride to the Thies Training Center where we will stay for a few days before being thrown into host families and diving into training.
Backing up...Staging is now over; it was good, quick, and relatively painless, minus the shots and malaria prophylaxis which made my head spin for several hours. It's been great meeting the 39 others headed with me and knowing that we are all basically at the same level of nervousness and excitement about the unknown adventures ahead of us. Everyone seems pretty cool and friendly and we all seem to be in agreement about that, which is even better. Most of us are Health Ed or Environmental Ed with about 5 or 6 doing Urban Agriculture (weird title, but it sounds like a really cool program doing community gardening, etc). Some have French, some don't, but we will all be in the same boat about Wolof and none of us have been to Senegal before.
This may be my last post for awhile, at least until I figure out what the heck is going on at PST in Thies...unless there's an internet cafe in the Brussels Airport that I can take advantage of duringWe land in Dakar around 9:40 pm, then have customs and a 2 hour ride to the Thies Training Center where we will stay for a few days before being thrown into host families and diving into training. our 7hour layover when we can't leave the airport...boo! We leave Philly at 10am, drive to NYC, fly out of JFK at 6:15pm, land in Brussels at 6:45am, fly out at 2pm, and arrive at 9:40pm...it will be an epic and life-changing journey, that's for sure! We land in Dakar around 9:40 pm, then have customs and a 2 hour ride to the Thies Training Center where we will stay for a few days before being thrown into host families and diving into training.
Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers, esp as I start this new crazy journey. I will be thinking of all of you!
Always,
B
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Off to Senegal
In a very big airplane
In-flight movie please?
sadly, the movies sucked...well to the us it was apollo &" and a bee movie but that was in the middle of the night. to banjul it was juno, but i slept through most of it...
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