Puppy Chow

Hey y'all. So far everything is going great. I love all the pcvols, staff and all the new stuff we've learned. Tomorrow we depart for Mali from Philadelphia after we finish pre-service training in the morning. So far we've covered safety, security, acceptance and integration, cultural exchange, aspirations and anxiety etc. and have done alot of getting to know each other activities. There's 80 of us just going to Mali, so I still have lots of names to learn. Also got some of my vaccines and took my first malaria pill which I will take weekly from now until the end of my service.

We get to Paris 830 Friday morning, go to sleep at an airport hotel, and then we arrive in Bamako, Mali at 830 Friday night, where they're having a ceremony to greet us. Then later next week, after more intro stuff, we'll meet our host families for the next nine weeks, who live in villages around the training center. There will be several volunterrs in each village so we'll be able to take classes together there. We'll go into the training center two-three times every two weeks during training--that's when I'll have internet/phone hopefully.

hope everyone's doing well. love and miss you.

rock-puppychow=awesome. im sharing with everyone and they all love you.
Sheils and Courts= thanks for the great send-off. I think I'm having a food coma. and sheils is just in a coma.
dear evan- tomorrow, the williamstown water supply will be laced with lsd. do not drink the water. shower freely. cordially, future evan
jacks and arrin, i ate all the chocolate pretzels in the first half day. thank you. maybe those should be an appetizer?