Leaving For Site!

It's 6:45AM here in Guinea and we're about to depart for Telimele! We're currently waiting for our driver to arrive so I ran up to the computer room to make one last blog post because when I arrive at my site in Gougoudje I won't have access to the Internet, let alone electricity. We'll be heading to Kindia first to meet some important government people and then spending the night in Telimele at Rick's house. Then we'll take Geoff to his site in Porekire which is 15km North of Telimele. After that, I will be the last one dropped off in Gougoudje on Wednesday afternoon. I start teaching in 8 days and I couldn't be more excited and nervous. The next week will be filled with lesson planning and learning how to do all sorts of little tasks in my village that I didn't have to do in Dubreka (cooking for example). We spent the last several days in Conakry buying what we will need at site because most things aren't available in our villages. I'll definitely miss the conveniences we had access to here in Conakry but I'm very excited to get to know the people in my village and become more integrated into Guinean society. We will spend about one month at our sites and then take our monthly visit to our regional capitals so that is probably the next time you'll get a blog post from me. I'll leave you with these two videos I took while here in Conakry...