Holy Cow!

I swore in yesterday at the Ambassadors house in Dakar.  Things are real now.  This is when it begins.  I am nervous and excited and unsure and ready and happy and proud and blown away all at the same time.  Currently I am taking it easy and getting the most of my internet usage in before I don't get to very often.  Thank gosh a fellow PCV showed me how to enable my wireless on my new computer because I was starting to become hopeless about the wireless situation..  I am hopeless with computers.  ANYHOW,  it feels weird to call myself a PCV now.  Everything I've ever read or heard about is now 100% applicable.

Swear in was nice yesterday!  WOOOOOO I am O to the FF to the ICIAL!  Gorgeous place and everyone had literally the most gorgeous outfits.  Very hot but whatcha gonna do.  the food was great and I finally got a ne phone by the end of the day!!  since mine broke after falling in dirty dish water last week :(  eeghhh.  so yeah then we got some excellent shopping in Thies and ended that with a phenomenal fancy dinner with just about everyone.  Definitely one of my favorite days here in Senegal.  Also got to be in Dakar for a little.  Man I love that city and I've only seen it three times and the first didn't really count.

I am so happy our training is over.  We had a tough day of language tests and presentations a few days ago and it was tiring.  I am ready to get the big move over with so I can unwind, do some yoga, relax and sleep :)

It has been wonderful playing with all of the kitties at the center!!  I am thinking about adopting a puppy after I talk with my host family!!  He is really cute and I'm normally a cat person but our guard dog in my site might have a problem with a cat always around.  I saw the way he was when the stray cam into my backyard during my site visit.

It is bittersweet spending the last day with everyone since it means we will start to live our experiences and travel to visit each other in the different parts of Senegal soon but after spending two months with each other, it means we will not see each other for awhile perhaps and that is sad.

SO  Now I am getting real hot as it is almost 5 and the sun has been baking me at Croisant Magique for an hour now.  I have to head back to the training center to pack all of my things which I AM NOT looking forward to doing cause I have a lot of crap.

But see you on the other side!!

I am now in the Peace Corps family!!

Love and kisses