It's finally happened! All that planning and packing and over-packing and saying good-bye has led up to this point, sorta: orientation in Philly! So I have just finished my first day here, and it has gone pretty well. I have met lots of cool people already and have learned that orientation workshops everywhere are really, really boring, no matter where you're going. But, I am starting to get excited again, and am looking forward to really bonding with my fellow Volunteers and fly over to Mali and begin this little adventure.
There isn't really that much to tell (its only the first day) but I will say this: its a really, really small world we live in. I had found out that a girl I'd known from studying abroad in Belgium together was going to Niger the same time as me; we've already met up today and caught up a little on what we've been up to the last two years. But even crazier than that was this guy in my group coming up to me and asking me if I had been at the American Middle School in Mexico City! Turns out that he and I had been in the same class in middle school, before he left after 8th grade. We have not seen or heard about each other in ten years, but, somehow, someway, we end up together in the same Peace Corps group heading out to Mali. Now I really do feel like singing the Its A Small World theme song.
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