It’s official. This week celebrated Thanksgiving, Homestays,
and the end of training to finally become official sworn in Peace Corps
Volunteers.
Last Friday (yes, a day late) we were able to create our own
little (or not so little) family Thanksgiving in Namaacha. Of course, our mães
thought we were insane thinking we could cook things like turkeys, green bean
casserole, stuffing, mashed potatoes, pie, and other things. And I quote (but
translated) “YOU are chiefi of pumpkin pie?? You know how to cook??” “Yes mãe,
I cook all the time at home.” It’s never the same as being with our families,
but it all came together and reminded us a little bit of home.
To continue the party weekend, the next day was our Homestay
celebration! Our mães cooked all the traditional Mozambican food and gave us
family capulanas. Such a bittersweet time. Transitioning from training to
volunteering but saying goodbye to each other and our families.
But now here we are, in Maputo, officially Volunteers,
freshly sworn in by the ambassador himself. It’s kind of weird. We are about to
start the real adventure of why we joined Peace Corps—not hanging out with 50
other Americans, not being taken care of by our mães, actually teaching It’s
all about to begin. And it’s a little scary. We’re leaving what has become our
reality and started a whole new reality—again—I feel like this is something I
JUST did isn’t it?? But here we go again starting over, again. And it really is
pretty exciting! Soon I’ll get to meet my roommate, I’ll get to meet the irmãs
at the school, I’ll have my own house, I can start my own routine, and my
Mozambique reality and dream can begin. And I’m excited.
After a week of our supervisors conference and spending time
in Maputo eating “American” food and hanging out together, we have finally at
our sites! I arrived in my site today and it’s just fantastic! My roommate is
amazing, the nuns are wonderful, and the school is beautiful. The other
teachers are all really excited to be teaching and I’m excited to call them my coworkers.
Now to unpack…which most of you know I really severely hate. But hopefully this
will be the last time for 2 years.
I’ll update my pics soon.
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