Salamaaleekum!

That means, "Peace be with you."

Finally here!  It only took 30 hours!  Our flight was delayed out of Brussels, so our entire group got to hang out in the Brussels airport for about 8 hours.  Fun times.  But we made it and that is all that matters. 

Our group of 30 is currently living at a lodge, but we will be going to our training villages tomorrow, which is really exciting.  So far we have been having lectures on the culture, norms and a little bit of language.  There are many languages spoken in the Gambia, and the one(s) we each learn depends on our final site.  They have not told us where that will be yet though, yay surprises!

It averages about 80-85 degrees here during the day, and cools down to about mid-60s at night.  It's actually pretty nice, but this is the cold season, so it will get hotter in a few months. 

We just received cell phones, virtually indestructable Nokias (insert Titanic reference here).  We will also be getting bikes eventually. 

I'm not going to attempt to load pictures at the moment since the connection is pretty slow and there is a queue for the computers, but hopefully I can get them up eventually.  That is all I can think of for now, I will try to make my next post a little more detailed.