I went to visit another volunteer at his site last weekend and it was a great break from Namaacha. I went to Gaza province, about 4 hours NE of where I am now. I got to experience a real chapa ride. On the way there, we had 24 people in a van! It was crazy. We went to the beach in Xai Xai 2 days during the visit. It was aaamazing. There was hardley anyone there and the water was so beautiful. I´ll find out where my final site is in a couple weeks, but I have my fingers crossed for somewhere close to a beach. I´m not really into the ´roughing it´. During site visit, we made really good food. It made me hopeful that I won´t be eating rice with a mixture of meat and coconut and peanuts on top which is what I eat most days during training. Its my host sister´s birthday tomorrow. She´s turning 5 and we´re having a big party! Ahaha! it worked. My first picture. There´s me in Africa.

It´s weird not being in the states for the election results. I watched coverage of it yesterday morning, but I was with my host family, and they didn´t really get why I was so excited. But I did have quite a few Mocambicans ask me what I thought about the elections, so that was fun to talk about.

Training is going alright. We just had a midtraining language test and I scored where I need to be at the end of training...meaning I can speak like a 6 year old! Woo! We´ve had a major overload on group projects and creative skits in all our sessions. I hate that stuff. I just want to be lectured to!

My language class made an ´American Meal´ this week. We did it at my house, which was good, since my family had been doubting my cooking skills. It was nice to cook stuff the way I know how to do it. We ended up making more of an Italian meal, with spaghetti and a tomato sauce, garlic bread, and a salad, with pancakes for a snack. My sister was trying to micromanage my veggie slicing for the salad, telling me my tomato slices were too big. And I was finally able to be like ´Its an American salad! We like big pieces of tomatoes, back off!´ Ha. In the end, I think everyone enjoyed the mean. And now they can´t tell me I don´t know how to cook :)

We have site visits this weekend for 5 days! Im really excited to be somewhere else for a few days!