Silly pics continued...and pics of our new home!

We made it back from Tata and we LOVED it! Hooray!

But first...finishing up pics from last time...


Here's a picture of Mike up close, to balance out that picture of me really close.




Here's the promised dress picture, along with me are my host sister and brother.




And you know when somebody looks all fancy you've got to get pics with everyone... :)



Okay! So here our some pictures of our site. Driving from green mountains to dusty desert was a little scary at first. We thought the terrain might be a little...empty. The bus we were in kept getting warmer and warmer the further south we got...but when we pulled into our site and looked around -- it's really pretty!




There is a palm tree oasis, we think watered by a spring, in our site, and so that is what the green stuff coming out of the earth is here is the tops of some of the trees. Walking around inside it was cool and shady and just plain cool.



Within minutes of arriving at our site we met some of the big people in town and the next day visited the school and clinic and the village association where the local women make carpets. Everyone seemed really enthusiastic about us being there so we were excited. We just need to find out what they are so excited about and what some of the health topics the community is interested in learning about are...and get better at our language -- we're ready to get sworn in and get started!

We have only about one more week at our health only training site, and then we meet back up with the environment volunteers for a last couple days of training. We'll swear in, assuming we pass our language tests (coming up this Monday!!!), on May 22 and then head out to be real Peace Corp volunteers on the 23rd!

We're off to CBT tomorrow to finish language learning and practice, and I think from here on out time will fly even more than it already has! We'll post more info about our site in the near future!