11/1/2009

11/01/09

Yesterday we found out our site placement for the next two years. It was pretty cool to learn where everyone in our group was going to be living after we leave our respective towns. It's going to be sad to leave the other 7 people that live in our town with us, but we'll be happy to have a little more freedom once we get to our permanent site.

Kimberly and I will be living in a cool place in the southern part of Ethiopia. It's a city of about 75,000 people and is actually known pretty well as a tourist stop. Apparently, it has a crocodile farm which is interesting. The guide book we read said it is several thousand bored looking crocodiles, all in cages. Sounds like a recipe for disaster if you ask me, and you can guarantee that I'll be going there on a regular basis! It is also near a nature preserve, in which we supposedly will be able to see hippos and zebras in their natural habitat. Just thinking about that makes me want to sing, "Oh, I Want a Hippopotomus for Christmas". If you don't know the song, look it up. You'll probably later wish you didn't, but it's pretty entertaining anyway.

Next week we get to visit our new home for an entire week to start setting it up. We are definitely looking forward to that. We won't officially move in until after we swear into the Peace Corps in the middle of December, but it will be good to see it anyway.

I didn't mention the name of the town, because Peace Corps is pretty big on us not really giving too many details over blogs and such. You never know who might be reading, but if you get our emails, you'll be able to know exactly where we are living.