Peace Corps!

After over six months of waiting, and going to the doctor eighteen billion times for one test after another, I finally yesterday received my Peace Corps assignment - I'm going to Senegal in March!

I knew basically nothing about Senegal before yesterday, but here's what I've learned in the last 24 hours: I will likely be living in a mud hut within a host family's compound. No electricity or running water. I'll be given a bike for getting around, but Senegalese use donkey-carts a lot (I want to ride in one too!). Food is mostly rice or millet, with vegetables and meat (sounds good). Only potentially scary ingredient I've read so far is the fish - I'm scared it will still have the head attached. Apparently tea and coffee is pretty common, which makes me really happy. French is the colonial language, and then I will get to learn a local language too - Wolof for starters, which is spoken in Thies, where I'll be for the first two months while I do training.

I'm going to get lots of books and learn more. So stay tuned!