I arrived in Philedelphia this morning for Peace Corps staging. After a brief (yet strangely comical) series of events where I took an airport shuttle to the next town over and the completely wrong hotel I made it safe and sound to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Philly.
There I had the pleasure of meeting a simply fantastic group of people. To give you an idea of how awesome, nearly everyone believes that Lion King sing-a-longs are the proper way to get pumped for Peace Corps service in Kenya. I'm just sayin'. The group is about 70-30 Science/Math Teachers and Deaf Educators. Lots of different backgrounds and origins. People from all over the country! (And a few from Big Ten country. There may be some smack talk. Just sayin')
There's not a lot to say about staging. It's mostly examining why we joined the PeaceCorps, what our goals are, and a brief discussion of the challenges we expect to face. Most of the detail work goes on in country, so here's a picture of Travel Gnome Steve!
Unfortunately, I haven't the foggiest when I'll have the time or internets to update this thing properly for the next couple months, so here's what's going down:
1. Depart from JFK, fly through Amsterdam and arrive in Nairobi.
2. Spend a couple days in Nairobi doing more in-depth preparations and final vaccinations.
3. Travel to Loitokitok (It turns out I've been mispronouncing it all this time! I still don't know how to say it right) and move in with our host families.
4. Language and technical training. Will be learning Swahili, possibly KSL. Much excite.
5. December 15 - Get sworn in. Get assignment. Woo!
It's a long day tomorrow, so that's all I got. Go Blue!
<3 Travel Gnome Steve.
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