We spent the last day and a half in Miami for our Peace Corps staging event, where we met the rest of our group. Last night we all jumped on a plane and headed south overnight to South America. We made it into La Paz, the capital of Bolivia at 5:30 this morning, then caught another flight to Cochabamba, the town of 500,000 where we will live for the next three months going through language, job, and cultural training in preparation for our two years of service as Basic Sanitation volunteers.
There are 29 in our group -it´s an awesome and energetic group, and we´re stoked for what´s ahead. Bolivia is beautiful. We were flying eye to eye with 20,000 foot peaks this morning, and are now resting in the valley of the Andes at 8,000 feet. The streets of the city are busy and colorful and so very different from any place in the US -the architecture, the faces, the language -it´s exciting to be here, to finally be doing what we´ve been wanting to do for so long.
Again, sorry for no pictures -we can´t hook up the laptop just yet, but we will soon.
Thank you, friends and fam, for all the support and love in sending us off. We miss you. Have fun and let us know what´s going on back home. You should still invite us to parties. That way we´ll feel loved, and who knows, we might just show up.
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Keep up the good work guys. I'll see if I can find 3.99 pounds of toilet paper to send you.
Greg Z.
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