Staging and Travel

After a day of training and 20+ hours of travel, we are finally in Johannesburg! By the end of the night, we will be in Lesotho to start our training.

We left for staging in Philadelphia bright and early Wednesday morning. We got a crash course in the Peace Corps and are now officially Peace Corps Trainees! We also got to meet the other CHED volunteers that are going with us to Lesotho. It seems like we have a really great group and we are excited to get to know everybody better.

We left Philly in the middle of the night to bus over to our flight to South Africa. After a long stay in the airport, we made it on to our flight. 15 hours later, we are parked for another long airport stay while we wait on our flight to Maseru. Once we get there, we will meet with the Peace Corps doc and finally get some sleep (I hope).

It has been a lot of fun hearing everybody's stories, and we have been fortunate to meet several current and returned Peace Corps volunteers from Kenya and Malawi that stumbled across us in the airport and on our flight. Everybody has been very supportive, and I am more excited than ever to get started.

We are tired, grimy, I haven't slept in days, and our shoulders hurt from carrying bags, but we are excited to be here. The next few months at training are going to be intense, but we can't wait to get started!

-Wes (Brandi is asleep on the floor... it has been a long few days...)