I am sitting in an internet cafe in Praia, Cape Verde at 5:45. Well I just wanted to let everyone know that I did make it from Atlanta, to Dakar relatively safely. We reached the capital with a full entourage of people. The Senegalese ambassador and the Peace Corps Country director came...and from the looks of it so did the entire city of Dakar. They almost attacked our van to say hello it was really weird, nice, funny, and just a tiny bit scary. We went to this really pretty hotel (on the outside). My group (around 30 people) stayed up the entire night and lounged by the pool and ate a senegalese lunch, and stared at the amazing beach as our plane was delayed for a few more hours.
We all were kinda sad when they said that we had to leave. We got to the Senegal Airport (which is much more laid back in customs than America) and boarded our plane for our whopping 1hour and 30 minute trip!
Anyways, we got to Cape Verde around 3 and we had a full welcoming crowd...it was awesome!!!! We got here and met everyone and saw the city which mind you is poor but very beautiful. It almost looks like we are in a latin American community. The scenerly is great, we have a mountain on one side of us and a HUGE beautiful beach on the other. So far I really like Cape Verde. And yes they are beautiful people...
Our orientation/training is alll day!!! from 8:00am to around 5 or 6. Its all really informative but overwhelming and scary. On Sunday we are meeting and moving in with our host families. We are gonna live with them and eat every meal with them. Since my job is Community Development I am actually pretty much only learning Kriolu (pronounce creol-ooo) because that is the local dialect. Like everyone speaks it but the formal and official language is portugese. So I might have to learn a little for writing.
I thought they were exaggerating the fish thing but now I think they underplayed how much fish they eat. All day, everyday, every meal. I have only eaten fish since I arrived in Africa. I LOVE IT!! We have bread, rice, potatoes sometime all three every meal. And it`s good! It is flavorful but without all the jazzy stuff. For lunch today we had eel. oh mind you all the fish is fried. itºs soo funny bc a couple of guys in our group and I were laughing that we only had eel as sushi and never thought to fry it!! I have met some really awesome people and I am having a great time.
Anyways, we got to Cape Verde around 3 and we had a full welcoming crowd...it was awesome!!!! We got here and met everyone and saw the city which mind you is poor but very beautiful. It almost looks like we are in a latin American community. The scenerly is great, we have a mountain on one side of us and a HUGE beautiful beach on the other. So far I really like Cape Verde. And yes they are beautiful people...
Our orientation/training is alll day!!! from 8:00am to around 5 or 6. Its all really informative but overwhelming and scary. On Sunday we are meeting and moving in with our host families. We are gonna live with them and eat every meal with them. Since my job is Community Development I am actually pretty much only learning Kriolu (pronounce creol-ooo) because that is the local dialect. Like everyone speaks it but the formal and official language is portugese. So I might have to learn a little for writing.
I thought they were exaggerating the fish thing but now I think they underplayed how much fish they eat. All day, everyday, every meal. I have only eaten fish since I arrived in Africa. I LOVE IT!! We have bread, rice, potatoes sometime all three every meal. And it`s good! It is flavorful but without all the jazzy stuff. For lunch today we had eel. oh mind you all the fish is fried. itºs soo funny bc a couple of guys in our group and I were laughing that we only had eel as sushi and never thought to fry it!! I have met some really awesome people and I am having a great time.
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