I'm in Miami right now for staging, which basically means orientation. It's definitely an excellent choice in location because it sort of serves as a temperature buffer between the artic tundra of WI and the sweltering heat of Paraguay.
I arrived yesterday at 1pm and somehow managed to find my way to the hotel in one piece, even with all of my luggage! Eventually my roommate (another Peace Corps Trainee, PCT) arrived and so we decided to get some food with some other PCT's, because most of us were starving from our day of travel. It was nice finally meeting my group in person. Then we had registration for about an hour and then had the night to ourselves. We all decided to go out to a little restaurant to hang out some more especially because some of the late comers still hadn't eaten yet. We went to a little Latin American place (quite fitting) and it was basically like a practice run. Our waitress seemed to not really speak Spanish so it was our chance to test our skills. I ordered a chocolate milkshake (batido chocolate) which was absolutely divine!
My group is awesome, and there is actually a fellow University of Wisconsin girl (go Badgers!).
We have orientation all day today and then we head back to Miami airport and hopefully I'll have wifi on the plane. Fingers crossed.
To those of you who downloaded the Textme app on your phones, it would be wise to start turning that on because after tonight I will no longer have phone service!
That's all I have time for today,
Until next time
xox
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