here and now

well, well, well...i arrived in town on Monday afternoon. When I arrived at my house, I won't lie, I had difficulty unlocking my doors, lol. And I think that the neighbor kids were laughing at me. Oh well. Then when I entered I was astounded at the amount of stuff that the previous volunteers Anastasia and Paul had left me! (if you guys read this, THANKS!) My house is SOOO comfortable, I sometimes forget I am not at home. But then I see big bugs like this nasty thing. I sprayed the s*** out of it throught the screen window.

Ok before I go on anymore about my maison...some pictures from swear in!


here is a group shot...everyone had meme (same) tissue (fabric) except in different colors.





this is a picture of Me and Melissa. For some reason people are ALWAYS switching our names. I'm blaming the fact that we're both short, have dark hair, etc.



John Mark and I giving our speech. There were about a million and one microphones in front of us. I was really nervous, but calmed down a little ways into it.




beginnning of a video that Steve put together. It was a really good video, I think everyone agrees with that; THANKS Steve!




cutting of the cake. it was yummy!

''Corps de la Paix...''





we were trying to get him to smile, lol. this is Kristin, her host sister Nora, my host brother Marcel, and moi.




this is Gloria, my favorite of the host siblings.


group shot of the TEFL group. can you find me?




My lang. teachers. Latiticia and Ines. Without them I would not have sworn in. Merci beaucoup!



picture with the host family. not everyone made it to the ceremony.




Kristin, Lucy, Dennis, me, Nora. Why does Dennis look so creepy? His facial expressions are a surprise in every pic, lol.


me with Sheryl, our country director.

a picture with more of the kids...the morning i left Porto-Novo.

Nathaniel and my taxi, and ALL of our stuff! and it wasn't even that packed, cause it was probably the most comfortable ride i've had yet, lol.









and that's it for now folks!

PS

in case i forgot to tell anybody:
if you're thinking about sending me a care package...you might have found out that it's SUPER expensive. however, there is somewhat of a way around it. go to the post office and ask for the FLAT RATE box/package thing. i think it's 37 bucks for the little one and 50 bucks for the bigger one. and you can put a bunch of stuff in it. Hopefully that is more cost effective than using FEDEX or other shipping companies.