'bout halfway through training

hey ya'll

Things are still well. I'm halfway through training and still enjoying myself, but anxiously awaiting the freedom that will come when i'm placed at my site which will become my home for two years. Days right now are pretty long and exhausting with kiswahili and HIV/AIDS classes keeping us busy throughout. It's well worth it though and while i know i won't be fluent per say by the time training ends, we'll all be comfortable enough to communicate at a basic level and become fluent as our service goes on.

My homestay continues to go well, my father recently came home from the shamba (farm) and stayed with us for a week. He's relatively young (37) and is a great guy. He's really into hip hop and reggae music so we do a little bonding and head boppin' together every night. Patrick, my three year old little brother is awesome and we have a lot of fun together.

I should be getting a cellphone soon (maybe this week), so when i do i'll post my number. In the meantime feel to write. Supposedly mail has been arriving with a bit more speed that originally thought, sometimes in just a week's time. Here's my address once again... Hope everyone is well and shoot me an email to let me know how you're doing... jhsull@gmail.com. Since my internet time is so infrequent i don't usually have time to reply to all your emails, but please still write because i definitely still read them all.

Justin Sullivan
Peace Corps
P.O. Box 9123
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania