home sweet home...

...and i'm not talking about the one i've known my whole life. i'm talking about the one i'll become acquainted with for the first 11 weeks of my peace corps experience. i finally have information about where training is going to be and pretty much what my schedule will look like. having met some of the people in my group through facebook, they all seem like really cool people. i just hope that there are at least a couple that i can have that "at home" feeling with just to make the experience a little less challenging.

first off i will be arriving in bucharest on the 18th, which is the capital city. from there i will have to travel another ~230 miles to the city where the training is going down. activities begin pretty the evening that we arrive and continue through saturday, which is when we get to meet and then go home with our gazda (host family). so after one of the longest and exciting weeks i've ever had...we get all of sunday off to spend with our new families. i'm soooo looking forward to the awkwardness of moving into a home full of people i've only known for a couple of hours (haha!). okay, so maybe not the awkwardness part but definitely building the relationships. i love meeting new people and i know how to make myself at home just about anywhere so it'll be great...i sure hope they have a sense of humor!

monday morning, the 24th, begins the rigorous 8:30 am to 5:30 pm training schedule (not including homework and study time) in the charming city of...

târgovişte ("tur-go-veesh-tay"), which is the capital city of the dâmboviţa ("dum-bo-veet-za") county of romania. this is where i will be living with my gazda during training, until getting placed at my actual service site. in one way i'm super excited to know exactly where i'll be, but on the other hand it's like before it was just a great concept and didn't really have any tangible evidence...somehow names of places make it all too real now!

***linked all that wikipedia has to say about it.