So I started out my Peace Corps journey by flying to Philly on Tuesday and finally meeting all my fellow volunteers. It was so great to finally meet everyone, and it has definitely taken a huge load off my mind. I definitely was so much less anxious after I got to know them. We had "staging" which was a 7 hour information session. Most of what we went over was already covered in the packets we got, so it was not super overwhelming. Afterward about half of the group grabbed cabs and went out to our last dinner in America. We went to El Vez, a nice Mexican restaurant and enjoyed some great food.
We got an early start on Wednesday, waking up and getting on a bus to JFK. It was about a 3 and 1/2 hour bus ride and then we had to wait around in the airport for a while since our flight wasn't until 5 pm. The two flights went well, nothing super remarkable or out of the ordinary.
We got in to Rwanda last night (Thursday). It was super dark out and we have spent pretty much all of today in the Peace Corps compound doing paperwork. Tomorrow we meet our host families and I am super excited!! I will try to keep in touch, still working out the internet/phone stuff!
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