Our Last Night with the Nkosi’s: September 19

Our last night with the Nkosi’s was filled with mixed emotions. We were extremely excited to have passed our language exam and to finally see the end of training, however we would be leaving a group of truly amazing people. We spent the afternoon with our brothers and sisters, walking to get cold drink and to check the mail and chatting over dinner preparations. The electricity was out so instead of watching TV after dinner we gathered around the ‘unused’ kitchen table to drink coke and look at our world and U.S. maps by candlelight. We had the best time pointing out different countries, making up dream vacations, discussing the diversity that makes our world so interesting, and making shadow puppets on the walls. The night concluded with the exchange of phone numbers and promises to visit each other over the next two years. This should be relatively easy as our permanent site is so close to Bundu, compared to other trainees who have a day’s journey to their sites.

picture: This is what the Peace Corps is all about!