OH boy.....NEWS!

SO, yippie and hooray, it finally came. The ominous hanging chad that was my future as been punched in full. I got a big, blue attahce type contraption in the mail last week from my friends at peace corps HQ. Seems they hadnt forgotten about me and, in fact, they want to send me to MALI!! After so much talk about living in the Mauritanian desert, i think thick niger river red clay is a real boon to the psyche. July, as previously assumed, is still the jumping off point, probely from philadelphia( I dont know that much yet, did I mention they like to make you squirm) and once in mali I will go in for about 11 weeks of training. That I suppose is what makes or breaks the volunteer. Its a time to re affirm youre will and probely re-evaluate your sanity. I have been reading alot of other blogs latey and i keep reading about people, groups even, who upon arrivel in country and within the first few days just turn around and go home. I guess the more i think about it, who isnt going over there with some small voice screaming GET OUT!! YOUR CRAZY!! i mean i am commited but still, is this whole effort a little nuts? anyway, if there are those in my group who DO leave early i will thank them in advance because they will have gone back home for that little voice inside us all.