I´m here!

I have made it to Cape Verde!! We left Atlanta at 4:30 pm on wednesday and arrived in Dakar Senegal at 4:30 am Thursday morning. It was pretty surreal getting on that plane and thinking that when it lands I will be in Africa for two years. Don´t worry I waived goodbye to the US as we flew away! We had a six hour layover in Dakar, so the Peace Corps took us to a hotel for the day. Now let me just say that Dakar is a pretty dangerous airport anyways, but coming in at the wee hours of the morning with 29 americans and more crap than we could carry, definately caused a stir with the locals. No one good is out at that time of day, I don´t care what country you are in. So after a pretty tense transition to the buses we got to the hotel and basically hung out by the pool all afternoon until it was time to go back to the airport and get on the flight to Praia, Cape Verde. We are staying at this hostel type place and I can see the ocean from my window. We have been in constant training sessions since we got here (no rest for the weary, i finally got to bed at 11 last night after 36 hours of being awake) and there is no end in sight. We got about 3 hours of free time today and I am glad I get to tell you all how things have been going. oh, we also received all of our shots this morning and are going to a big dinner tonight. In case you were wondering, local time here is 3 hours ahead of eastern time and 6 ahead of the west coast. Well the computer is buzzing at me because i only have 5 min left so i have to wrap up but I am great and already loving it. Can´t wait to get to my host family on Sunday and start learning some Kriolu!!!