Who needs sleep?

So much has happened in the last two days, and being sleep deprived has given the whole experience a dream like quality. We spent all day today going doing cleverly desguised ice breaker exercises, I think i've met almost all of the 44 volunteers and remembered the names of maybe twenty which is pretty good for me.

I really lucked out, my room mate at the hotel is a mathy guy who also brought his guitar, is going to try to make it work with his girlfriend stateside and has a quick sense of humor, took zero effort to make friends. I havent met anyone yet i dont like and everyone is pleasently nerdy. The things different people are anxious about is pretty intereting. Forget worrying about fitting in, making a difference, or health, a surprising number of us are more worried about the size of insects we're going to encounter. Meh, i'll take on a frisbee sized spider, it might be the only animal protein i get for a while.

Last night a group of us went to dinner and ended up at a karoke bar. I never thought i'd be singing Billy Joel with three other guys but when you're leaving for Uganda for 2 years its pretty easy to say fuck it why not. Which i think is the attitude the Peace Corps is really looking for in volunteers.

I won't be updating this for perhaps 10 weeks and will only be available by email if that, so farewell for now!