Dumelang from Botswana!!!
Unfortunately the internet is too wonky to upload any pictures, guess you'll have to read my boring words instead. Seriously, my exhausted mind and body along with the exhausting internet leads to a pretty drab post that in no way does justice to the excitement of this journey.
After a long day in the airport, a 15 hour flight to Johannesburg, and a final flight to Gaborone, Botswana our group of 75 volunteers finally made it to country!
The past few days have been filled with endless information on home stays, Setswana (the native tongue), safety, peace corps staff, and medical interviews. Tomorrow, us and all our hundreds of pounds of luggage, will travel to the village of Serowe to meet our host families, where we will be living for the next two months.
Orientation recap:
-malaria meds that double as acne medication, yay!
-after traveling across the world and all being separated from everyone we love, making friends is almost instant!
-I already crave chocolate
-Setswana has a lot of syllables
-Setswana also has a lot of confusing pronunciations (can you pronounce lwala because I sure can't!)
-tea time is the best!
-and Botswana sunsets may surpass AZ's and that's saying something!
In Serowe I might not have internet for a while, but I'm sure I will have plenty of stories!
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