she's a rolling stone

yesterday i offically became a peace corps volunteer at the swearing in ceremony. now today i am leaving for my site to start my new life. i will be living with a host family for the next two months. they have 11 children, and a huge house on top of a mountain (the mountain that i fell down).

swearing in was bittersweet, on one hand, i'm getting to do what i came here today, but on the other i am leaving all of the friends that i made in training. the governer and peace corps country director gave speaches, as did three trainees. after our language training we have a language proficiancy interview where they rank your language ability. i was in the highest class of the group - intermediate mid (three people got the same score as me), and of the highest class, they pick (or force) on person from each language to do a speech at swearing in. so yesterday, i very nervously gave a speech (only about 5 minutes) in tashleheit (the language i will be speaking for the next two years). i am pretty comfortable in it, but still don't understand everything said to me. hopefully it will all come with time and a good tutor.

but the taxi is leaving in a minute or two, i just wanted to give an update because i know a lot of you want to know what's going on. it'd be great to get letters, if you don't have my address send me an email and i'll respond when i can. from now on, i should have internet access only about twice a month, but i'd love to hear from you anyway.

so now it begins. i full of a lot of different emotions, but i'm definatly excited to see what the next two years have in store for me.