do it for 'merica!

hey all,

so we are gettin into the meat & potatoes of training rite now. we had our first language interview/assesment/test yesterday and i think i did ok. its become apparent that the more you say 'hello, thank you & goodbye' the more fluent you appear...kolenu mwani, nasakilili nan kashi, melea mwani! the tech training is really gettin fun as we get to ride our bikes through the bush to get there. earlier this week we went the wrong way and stumbled upon a sweet waterfall which we all hang out at in our free time now. yesterday we started to dig a pond and i got covered in mud from using it as a slip & slide plus a few sweet mud fights. its so sweet that even when we are in class its in the middle of some cool pictureque african setting. the only worry now is that i will miss my fellow trainees & my homestay family when i get posted. my homestay family is really awsome and insists on doing nearly everything for me. i finnally broke thru last week and did my own laundry. tommorrow we are going to have a bob marley party while we do laundry. my fellow tainees are my real family here. they are so great and the best way to put it is w/a line from 'swing life away' by rise against...

''and I've got some friends some that I hardly know but we've had some times I wouldn't trade for the world''

and tonite is the big 'disco nite' where we all go to the club with our trainers which should be a blast...don't wait up.

kolenu mwani!
(hello, literally 'be strong')