Well, it's week four here in Togo. Internet access has been a little
unreliable, so I haven't been able to post in a while. I actually had
several posts typed up on my flash drive, but then I left the darned
thing at home. :)

Nadia and I came here to Kpalime today to use the internet and buy some
hot dogs for today's 4th of July celebration with the other volunteers.
At this moment, several fellow stagiares are killing some chickens for
le grand fete.

Entirely too much has happened here to summarize right now (our host mom is waiting for us here in the cyber cafe) . Essentially the village for our training is great. We're at the foot of the tallest mountain in Togo, and it is incredibly green. The entire village came and sang and danced to welcome us when we arrived. It was an amazing experience. Our host family is wonderful, and they have one of the nicest houses in town. We actually have electricity, a flushing toilet, and... a satellite dish! Yep, we've been watching lots fo Cote d'Ivoir television and occasionally CNN. I really wasn't expecting that.

We find out our posts on Friday. I'm so excited. I'm an ICT (information and communication technology) volunteer, so I know we'll either be in Sokode, Kpalime, Souduboua, or Tsevie.

Hopefully it won't be too long till my next blog entry. Thanks for your patience!

Peace Corps Staging

Well, Nadia and I just completed the second day of our staging event in Washington, D.C. We are now officially Peace Corps Trainees! w00t w00t! Tomorrow morning we'll get our remaining vaccines and we'll receive the first dose of our anti-malaria medication. Let the mad dreams commence!

Nadia is very excited to be back in D.C. She lived up here for two months for an internship last year and was really sad to leave. We walked around some of her old stomping grounds this evening. We were tempted to watch the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie, but we decided not to blow three hours of our last evening in the U.S.

Now we're rearranging our luggage to make it a little easier to carry. Then we'll catch a few zzz's before waking up early for our big day tomorrow. Hooray! I will probably not be able to post for a few weeks while we get set up in our pre-service training area in Togo, but I'll do so as soon as possible. Take care, everyone!

Pics from England and Scotland

Here are some pictures from our trip to England and Scotland! I had more, but it's late and I'm still trying to figure out how to post captions for these in blogger. Hope everyone is well.

- Tristan