And...done. As of about 1:00 pm Zambian time on Friday I am officially a Peace Corps volunteer. To say I'm happy is a gross understatement. It was hard to leave my host family, and it was tough to leave all the other trainees/volunteers, but I'm finally able to do what I came here to do. Sort of.
See, what's supposed to happen is that we swear-in and the next day everyone heads off to their provinces to shop and at the beginning of this week they take us all to our villages. Well sometimes, due to any number of reasons, the villages aren't ready when they're supposed to be. In short, I don't have a house right now. Terrible, right? Well, not quite. See since I don't have a house yet they've shipped me to the provincial house in Choma, Southern Province, with all the new volunteers who are being posted there. So we're gonna hang out there until my village is ready for me. It's not bad, but today some of the volunteers had to go meet district counterparts in Livingstone, so we've all come to Livingstone for the day. Livingstone just happens to be where Victoria Falls, one of the biggest waterfalls in the world and one of the 7 natural wonders of the world is. And today we went there. It's absolutely unbelieveable. Niagara Falls is impressive, but even that seems rather tame compared to the sheer size and power of Victoria. There's a bridge that runs across the front of it that you run across and just get completely drenched. It's incredible. I took some pictures and I'll post them at a later date, but they can't come anywhere close to doing it justice.