HELLO FRIENDS
So I am officially a Peace Corps Volunteer. We swore in last night and have a few days here in Lome and then Im off to Koussountou for the next 2 years. Exciting stuff.
All 30 of us made it to PCVs and I could not bemore proud of my fellow stagaires.
And some big news...yesterday I got a cell phone so now I can text and recieve calls from all of you
the number is 0112289778076 and im not sure how well international texts will work but its always worth a shot
i miss you all tons and i know that im going to be having a lot of free time in the next few months so i can write lots of letters and stuff so keep an eye on your mailboxes
i should appologize now because i had no money or anything for christmas gifts or even cards but next year i will have lots of togolese gifts for everyone
things here are really great
i am learning french slowly but surely - im technically at intermediate high whiwh means they trust that i can communicate on my own and i am starting to learn koussountou the lanuage so i can be trilingual
ok thats a bit much but at least i can say good morning and stuff
i had to give a quick speech last night in koussountou at the swear in ceremony and it was on national television
pretty scary stuff
but i think my site is going to be good
its right on the border with benin and there is a big problem with child trafficing to nigeria so i hope to be doing some work against that
ill know more about the work im doing after a few weeks there
and ill be near the intenet for christmas if not once before then so i can let you all know more about the wonderful world of tami in togo
until then keep in touch
i miss and love
tp