I'm a real peace corps volunteer!

hi!

we had our swear-in ceremony on Tuesday and now i am a real peace corps volunteer! i am going back to my village within the next week and i am so excited! however today i have to go see a dermatologist because i have some funky skin rash that the Peace Corps doctor has never seen before. i'll let you know how that goes. other than that life after live-in was pretty relaxing. we had our final language classes and now we are just filling out paper work and getting ready for the next two years. thanks for all your support! i miss you all!

oh i have a new address:

Elizabeth Hunt, PCV

Corps da la Paix

BP 144

Dosso Niger

West Africa

also this is a picture of Katie and

I in our swear-in outfits. yes i am wearing giant chickens on my outfit because when else can i wear chickens all over my body at a very serious event? hopefully more pictures will come

not probably lost...i did get lost

hey
ok so the french apparently do not get excited because i cannot find the exclaimation mark...but please read this in your the most excited way that you can

i just got back from liove which is when we go to our village for about a week and live in our huts ect. so the health hut that i am working at is on the main road and my village is 2.5 k into the bush. so i went to the health hut one day during liv in with the PCV who did my live in. however, i had to find my way back alone. it is really just a straight shot but i got totally turned around. luckily one of my moms was walking through and saw me and pointed me in the right direction. it was also good because it gave all of us something to laugh about for the rest of live in.

my village is beautiful and the villagers are awesome. i am really excited to live there. i am also really excited to learn more zarma as the only thing i understood was my villagers tellling everyone that i dont understand. i really live in a hut with a shower area and a latrine. i have a moderate size concession which is nice. i have no trees in my concession which is good because then i will not have bats. other than not much to say about it. for safety reasons i am supposed to give too much detail about where it is. but i assure you its pretty cool;

we swear in in like ten days which is crazy and after that in two weeks or so i move in to my village after which i cant travel for about a month. but i will try to update you all after swear in and before i leave.

i miss you all and hope you are all in health. i am always thinking about you
elizabeth

hello finally

hi everyone
ok so i am on a french keyboard which is super confusing so please excuse my typing.

ok so i really love it here i like the training village and site but i am ready to leave and get to post. i am going to be in the dosso region, which was my first choice of regions, so i am super excited about that

my village is 600 people and i will be living in a traditional zarma hut

i like getting letters and packages so if you have sent me a letter THANK YOU

my host fam is super paitient with me. especially when i say i am going to donkey with them instead of chat or when i say i am going to buy their last volunteer instead of seeing them. but lang is coming along, so i think by swear-in, i should be ok

no elizabeth-like incidents have happened so far...i will keep you posted

i really loe it here and i miss you alll so much there is so much to tell that i am getting stressed just thinking about what to to say BUT i have health and am having a great time i will hopefully be able to add more in a couple weeks but this should suffice for now for your elizabeth craving

love you all and always thinking of you