New Phone Number

Here's my new number, forget the old one...

+011 255 68 444 8363

Still waiting on you Heilz!


Cheers,

Jayce

Are You Ready to ROCK!?

Hope these tide you all over for a while...

African Killer Bees (In my bedroom)

My courtyard...

My home for the next 2 years is a duplex (left side, strong side)

The first of many Singida rock pictures...

The second...

Cheers,

Jayce

Oh Man...

Internet here is badass...

A great pic of night-checkers...

Me and Cessie trying to act professional at swearing in...

After just finding out our site announcements...

Some minx workin' the camera...

Some neighboor kids in our living room, (That's the floor I eat dinner off of, no big.)

Cheers,

Jayce

A SITE For Sore Eyes

View outside my homestay in the morning.

My choo...

One of these is SUPPOSED to be there....


Some neighborhood kids, the right is my brother...

Family portrait...

So just got to my site in Singida, Tanzania. The village of Ilongero.

Singida itself is pretty cool looking. Very much what you would expect from Africa. Lots of dry desert and badass rock formations. Here's a quick story:

So I move into my house and as they are showing me the place they say here's where you'll sleep and then theres this room. And I'm like, whats in that room? They're like don't go in there, there's a little bit of a bee problem. I'm like, I survived bats in the bellfrey, what could be worse!?

I walk into the room and there are hundreds of bees swarming from the ceiling boards, not just a hive, but a giant honey comb all over the ceiling boards.

Thankfully I think we got rid of them and everything is fine, but we will see how everything goes...

I'm keeping this short because I'm trying to upload pics, FINALLY, here it goes...

Cheers,

Jayce

Free at Last

As predicted the blogging definately slows down. Training has been a whirlwind but it is finally over. Thank the lord. If Peace Corps is a new chapter in my life, then training is the preface. A long, arduous, annoying, taxing, frustrating preface.

But whatever its over. Today we are swearing in. We are becoming official Peace Corps volunteers. Intense! The ceremony is being held at the US Ambassadors house, which I hear is pretty swanky. Then again, that could just mean that it has a sit-down toilet. Our standards for excitement are very low.

Tomorrow morning we are headed to our sites. I am going to be in the city of Singida. In a town called Ilongero. Its in central TZ a little north of the capital Dodoma. Im pretty pumped about it because I hear its pretty cool to look at and its hot, its famous for all its rock formations and stuff and its got a couple lakes nearby. I don't know if we are able to swim in them or not but a little case of worms never hurt anyone right?

The house that I am moving into has electricity. Im pretty stoked about that, I think I am one of about seven volunteers that got a site with electricity. Which should be great for listening to music and stuff, I still won't have internet at my house, but power is going to be siiiiick. I can't wait.

Other than that things are going great, looking foreward to the ceremony and getting this journey started! Oh and did I mention that I have lost like 27lbs? I am looking goooooooooood!

Next update will be from my new pad!


Cheers,

Jayce
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