Officially a Volunteer!
Hey all! I apologize for the tardiness for those who have been wondering what I’ve been up to, but finally now that I have officially sworn in as a Peace Corps Benin volunteer, I have some time to sit down and write a little update. The first three months of service in the Peace Corps is called Pre-Service Training (PST). My PST took place in a larger town in the South of Benin called Lokossa. During those three months I lived with an amazing, generous, unbelievably hilarious host family which I described in my last post. We had training everyday in Lokossa, save for a two week site visit where we got to go live with another host family in our real sites all over the country. The last four weeks of PST were all technical training. Since I am a rural community health volunteer, I learned about specific health practices promoted by the Minister of Health of Benin which I will pass on to my community throughout my two years of service here. I won’t go into detail about everything we l