First 3 weeks in Africa

Once a week our language and cross cultural group of five people meet up with the rest of the volunteers in training for health and safety seminars. This week also dug garden beds and planted corn and beans for the research center. Our leaders have so much enthusiasm, motivation and knowledge to share with us. This picture was taken after our usual meal of beans and rice, with either a side of spinach or cabbage.





This is the agricultural research center where we will be doing our training for sustainable farming systems.
Our first visit to the market, filled with kids playing soccer, fresh fruit, fish, and vegetables.

We love and miss you all!!!
We'll be in touch!

Wyatt and DeeDee

Group Picture at JFK

This is all of us, from all over the country... on our way to Tanzania. All smiles because its before we flew 18 hours on a plane.
Love and miss you all
Dee and Wyatt

we made it here

this is a picture of the hostel we will be staying at for the next few days. On sat. we drive to kilosa for the beginning of our pre-service training. Dee Dee and I had to spend our first night apart but we should be together from know on. If you want to mail things we will always get it if you mail it to

(name)

Peace Corps

P.O. box 9123

Dar Es Salaam

Tanzania

hope all is well

KILOSA

Orientation will begin in Dar Es Salaam where we will spend time at a local hostel. Here we will recieve briefings and general info about the Tanzania Peace Corps offices. From Dar Es Salaam we travel west to Kilosa, which is located between Dodoma and Morogoro. In Kilosa, we will stay at Ilonga Agricultural Training Institute and this will serve as our "training hub" for the next 3 months. Then we will be introuduced
to our host families! I'm sure there will be a local address, but we do not have this information just yet :)
Take care and we'll be in touch!
love,
Dee and Wyatt

Bon Voyage!

June 8 is our new date of departure, which is rapidly approaching so this will be our last message before we leave the States. We leave El Paso and fly eastbound to Philadelphia where our adventure begins. This is where we'll be doing our last minute preparations and then its off to Dar-es-Salaam, which you can see is on the coast, the Indian ocean to be exact. After 3 months of language, cultural, and safety training we could be sent pretty much anywhere in this massive country which is the size of Texas and Oklahoma combined!

Hopefully we get to see some of these big guys!

We will do our utmost to stay in touch via this website but who knows if the internet will be accessible or not. Thanks again for all the warm hospitality we recieved from everyone!

Take care, love you all!

DeeDee and Wyatt