Journey to Ouagadougou

I'm here and ok everyone!  Arrived just fine around 4pm 6/6 Ouaga time, 12pm EST.  Borrowing Diego's computer in order to write this.  I will use U.S. time here a bit, but from this post on will us Burkina time, only 4 hours ahead of EST.  At the end of each post I will try to give an estimate of when I will be able to post again, depending on internet availability.

Staging in Philly allowed me to meet the other 33 volunteers who are going to Burkina for education.  In about 2 weeks I hear the agriculture people will be going to staging.  The other sector is Health.  Every single one of these volunteers are amazing people,  I cannot stress that enough.  I got the lightest packer award, seemingly by a great margin.  Pretty psyched about not having to worry about getting more than 2 bags of junk everywhere.  We did a bunch of ice breakers in Philly before taking the bus to NYC Tuesday 6/5 morning.  We then got to hang around the airport for 5 hours before the flight.

After leaving NYC around 6pm on 6/5, we arrived in Brussels 9ish hours later.  I was able to sleep a little and there were some movies on.  We watched The Vow and The Young Victoria.  After a 5 hour layover in Brussels, we left for a direct flight to Ouagadougou.  There was a personal entertainment screen for every seat, so I played some games and watched the Hangover 2 and Darjeeling Limited.  The last flight was the first one that I got a little nauseous on, but that cleared up the second I got on the ground at Ouaga. 

I am in the hotel now and we are taking care of everything administrative before leaving for the village of Sapone on Saturday, where I will meet my host family and life will really begin. 

My next post should be 6/8 or 6/9.