In Kanye

Our trip from Philadelphia to Kanye, Botswana was very long. Our flight to Johannesburg was 14 hours! Although I will say this, South African Airways sure makes you feel like flying isn't too bad. We got lots of food, socks to walk around, an eye mask, toothbrush and toothpaste and we could watch tons of free movies and tv shows. We did have a long lay over between South Africa and Botswana. Matt and most of the PCT's had a 7 hour lay over and the remaining 6 of us ad a 9 hour lay over. Once the last group arrived in Kanye, we had to lug all of the other PCT's luggage onto cars. Needless to say, it was a long 2-3 days for us!

We stayed in Gaborone one night and started training there. The next day we took a bus trip to Kanye, where we will be spending the next 2 months. The ride was beautiful. Botswana is a lot greener than we thought it would be. There were lots of animals around! I still can't get over the donkeys!!! We had our host family matching ceremony which was wonderful. The mom's are just so great, all of them gave great big hugs to their host kids. We both got emotional watching the ceremony and got teary eyed when we finally met our host mom and niece. They are wonderful. Our mom's name is Phodiso, our father is Patrick and our niece is Pearl. Pearl is 10 years old and is super smart. Her favorite subjects are science and math, so we've had a lot of fun doing math problems and talking about biology and geology. Pearl is a great teacher and is teaching us lots of Setswana. We start our full days of training tomorrow and we look forward to learning about HIV/AIDS in Botswana.

That's all for now!