My family dropped me off Friday morning to the Yosemite airport in Fresno, CA. (If you're reading this, I miss everyone already!) From there I caught my flight to LAX and met the rest of the Peace Corps volunteers. We have a pretty interesting and diverse group. There are 10 women and 6 men (with 4 specializing in IT and 12 specializing in business). Unsurprisingly, they all seem to have a genial disposition as well as an impeccable sense of humor.
For the weekend, we stayed at the hotel to cover some general Peace Corps policies and get acquainted with one another. We tried to catch a ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 2’ showing, but the theater tickets were sold out for our available times.
Saturday night we left the hotel and caught a thirteen-hour flight from Los Angeles to New Zealand. One of the volunteers seems deathly scared of flights. Right now we’re on a two-hour flight to Tonga. I missed the World Cup final (something that I wish I could have watched with my dad). However, I was able to see France’s first goal at a bar in the New Zealand airport. They're now announcing the score in the middle of the Tongan plane ride! Anyways, I will write more later; right now I need to conserve the batteries on my laptop.
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