Training cont.........

Well I have gotten a few requests to update so here goes. I’m still in training and everything has been going well for the most part. We are going to visit our future posts on Saturday and everyone is very excited to see where they will be living for the next two years. We are midway through training and I think most of the group is starting to get impatient. I will be going to Dapong which is the regional capital in the Savahans region which wayyyyy up north by the Burkina border. I also found out that I will have some really cool region mates when I get there. Before coming to Togo I was doubtful that I would have running water or electricity but as it turns out I will have both at my post. Dapong has a population of about 40,000 (I think), which is defiantly one of bigger posts in Togo and Peace Corps World Wide. I don’t have much more info on where I will be living because the site description was pretty vague compared to some of the others. I know once of the kids from the Natural Resource Management group is going to a village of 300. I think he and I are at the extremes of the spectrum. On a down note, the day we got our post descriptions I had to go to the Peace Corps med unit in Lome because I wasn’t feeling well. I really didn’t want to go, but it was kind of nice to sleep in an air conditioned room and have a hot shower after taking bucket baths for a month. It was almost like being back in the States. I talked to a current volunteer who said his time in the med unit wonderful even though he was vomiting constantly from Malaria. While I was in the Med Unit I was able to hang out with Brian who was staying in the Med Unit waiting for a flight back to the states. He was a volunteer in Madagascar and was evacuated in March after 8 months of service. He was my roommate our first four days in Lome and was a great person to talk to about being a volunteer. He decided that Peace Corps Togo was not for him, and he has a pretty big cross country road trip in front of him. Good luck man. After spending two days in the med unit I was able to go back to training. Since then I have been feeling much better but I haven’t had much of an appetite since. I have lost twenty pounds or so since arriving in country. I also have got a wicked cut on my foot a few days ago, and it’s been a challenge to keep it clean but so far it hasn’t gotten infected. I also got my first two shirts made in since being in Togo. They are both pretty colourful and only cost me 12 dollars to make both of them. Thanks for all the care packages I got lots of pictures and Halloween candy today and everyone else is pretty jealous of all the love I have been getting. Well I hope things back home are going well, I’m a bit jealous of your cold weather because I found out that the hot season in my region is from February to early May and it can get up to 115 in the day!