On Sunday I will be leaving Anchorage to begin my Peace Corps experience. I will fly to Philadelphia where I will be meeting up with the other Education volunteers going to Mozambique. I still don't know how many people there will be, but I'm guessing around 20. We will all meet at a hotel in Philadelphia on Tuesday and have some orientation activities there. Then we will get on a bus at 2am and drive to the JFK airport where we will board out flight for Johannesburg, South Africa. We will then take a short flight to the capital of Mozambique, Maputo.
When we get to Maputo we will spend a few days there and then travel to Namaacha, the village near Swaziland where we will be doing our training. We will live with host families there for 3 months while we learn Portuguese and do teacher and intercultural training. We will have training Monday-Saturday, 7:30 am to 5:30 pm for three months.
For those of you who don't know, after training I will be teaching secondary science in Mozambique. I don't know where exactly in the country I'll be yet because they don't assign us specific locations until halfway through the training process. Mozambique is a big country so there is a lot of variety in where I could be placed. I can't wait to find out! :)
During training, I can receive mail at the following address:
Sienna Laughton, PCV
Corpo da Paz/U. S. Peace Corps
Avenida Zimbabwe 345,
C.P. 4398
Maputo, MOZAMBIQUE
I would love to hear from you guys, either through snail mail or email!
I've never kept a blog before, but I'm going to try to update this every few weeks or so during my time in Mozambique. Hopefully you'll be hearing from me again soon!
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