Estamos Aqui!

We landed in Quito last night, and were bussed to the Peace Corps training compound in a town nearby called Tumbaco. (No, not Timbuktu.) The facility was originally built to be a private school, and we are staying in gender divided dormitory rooms.

There are 38 in the class. Marguerite and I are the only couple, and the only ones in our age range. The rest seem to range in age from 22 to 26. One is a Volunteer who was pulled out of Ukraine, for obvious reasons. They're a good group. You'd be proud of them.

We stay here one more night, and then we meet our host families on Saturday, and move in with them. Training is for 12 weeks.

I had hoped to include a striking photo with each posting. We would like this to be more show than tell, but we have had very little time for photography so far, and we don't have any interesting enough to post. jlw