And we're off...

We leave for the DR tomorrow! We have to get up super early to do so and be at the airport and ungodly amount of time before our plane leaves, but we're going! We get in the DR about 2:30pm or so and then we are met by our country director to head to a little retreat for the rest of the day and to spend the night. Then the next day we do some more administrative type stuff and meet our host families that night so we can start living with them. I'm most nervous about that part, not because I think I won't like them, but because they are the people that I will have to speak only Spanish to first. That's my first real language challenge, they speak only Spanish, I speak enough to get myself into trouble. We also start our vaccines, and while I thought I was ahead on them, I realize that I'm really not. I will get a bunch of vaccines that we don't really get in the US because they aren't as relevant, and the Peace Corps gives them to be cautious, such as menengitis and influenza. We also get rabies, typhoid, Hep A&B, MMR, Polio, TD, and a bunch of others. My arm will be sore. Hopefully I will get some good pictures soon, but it doesn't sound like I will have access to internet for a while to post them. Wish me luck!