Hola todos!
Estoy en Nicaragua!!!!!!!!
I cannot believe that I am finally here. Pre-service training has been awesome, just getting to know the other voluntarios and my fellow trainees. Our hotel is beautiful, but haven´t gone exploring yet so I don´t know much about my surroundings. Saturday is going to be a big day though. that is when I meet and begin living with my host family! today we had our spanish evaluations - that was fun, hahaha not. But they need to know my level. Apparently we are grouped according to our spanish speaking abilities, so i will be with 3 or 4 other ppl that speak the same level as i do, which is good. besides that, not a whole lot is going on. getting shots and getting to know the staff and bits and pieces about the country. I don´t know where my site is yet, but we find that out tomorrow! I am sad to leave some of my new friends. On Sat. the aggies are splitting away from us and are going te be living in towns that are like 3 hours from where all of us Env. Ed. ppl will be. The next time I will get to see them is for our swearing in ceremony. But I´ll at least be fairly close to other EEs. Few things that I have learned so far - wear bug spray all the time! well actually that´s really the main thing that i have learned hahaha. Also, when it rains here, it rains! And I do not mean carry a strong umbrella, i mean stay indoors until it stops if that is at all possible. hahaha But it´s amazing at the same time, it was soo humid yesterday, and during the day it is very hot, like mid 80s at least. But it starts to cool down very early, around 5 or so, for instance I am wearing pants and a tshirt right now and would be completely comfortable outside- that is something that I cannot even say about Florida for most of the year. Also, I have learned that this is the rainy season, and it lasts from roughly may until december. and then the rest of the year is extremely dry, but apparently you can´t truly grasp it until you´ve lived through it.
Oh also i am looking forward to having weekly access to writing b-c for the next 3 months we will be going to a city once a week that will be large and have internet cafes! Also, when i get to my permanent site, i should be getting a cell phone. and incoming calls are free! (but outgoing ones are very expensive)
Wish me luck!

From D.C. to Managua... and beyond!

Alright ya'll so I've finally found a few seconds to write again. I'm still in D.C. and leave at the crack of dawn tomorrow morning. (Literally my check out time is earlier than I go to bed some nights ;) But nonetheless, I'm stoked. Meeting all the other volunteers has been so much fun! We have spent most of our time doing official business stuff, but during free time I've gotten to know quite a bit about these people - and am excited to learn more. There are people here from all over, but no fellow Hoosiers :( Oh well, I promise I will represent us well! hahaha

I am going to miss all of you back home, but I brought a lot of pics and memories to accompany me along my adventure. I would give the play by play of what I have been up to, but that sounds boring and would take a long time. However I have learned a little about what my next few weeks will be like, and I know that every day I will be learning even more. I know that I am going to be spending the next few days in Managua and this upcoming weekend I'll get to meet my host family!!!!!!!! Oh- soooo stoked for that, knowing my luck I'll get a family with a bunch of little boys and all I brought was glitter pencils and flower erasers! hahaha
After this weekend, I'll be at my training site with 3-4 other volunteers, so I'll get to spend even more time with my new friends! We'll have Spanish lessons mon-thurs and then other days are spent on technical training. So I am gonna be real busy doing all sorts of fun stuff!

Wow- this is already crazy long, and I am rambling- hahaha as if that is a surprise! Oh and I forgot to put the disclaimer that I am the world's worst speller, so deal with it :)

I'll post again soon!

Anticipation

This is my first official post on my blogsite. This is going to be just one of many interesting parts of this Peace Corps experience. I have never used a blog before, and I had to have help posting my pics on facebook! Wish me luck!