Staging/Orientacion

I arrived here in Miami yesterday. Staging is not really much of anything other than an orientation before going to the host country. It's been very weird experience. It feels a lot like vaction (the hotel, the luggage, the new scenes), but with the uneasy feeling that it will end like anything other than a vacation. In training today the trainer told us to "look around at all of these people....these people will be your family...." The people look nice enough, but I just can't imagine that for the first few months these people are gonna be my "close" friends. I don't even know any of them yet.... I guess the peace corps knows what they are doing.

Tomorrow evening (wed) we board our flight for Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay. Word has it, that the same day that we arrive (thursday) each of us will each go to stay with our host family. I feel for the volunteers that do not know a word of Spanish.


Llegue aqui in Miami ayer. La orientacion, de verad no es nada. Es mas para ubicarnos y prepararnos para nuestra destinacion in Asuncion. Bueno, eso es orientacion...no? Es una experiencia muy extrano. Es como una vacacion (el hotel, equipaje, ambiente nueva) pero la sensacion extrano es de que este "viaje" sera cualquier otra cosa aparte de un viaje al fin y acabo de todo. En la orientacion, el lider nos dijo que fijaramos muy bien en a la gente en nuestros alrededores, "porque" dijo el senor, "estas personas sera tu familia durante los proximos 27 meses. Ne entiendes mal, la gente me parece buena gente, pero es super dificil imaginar que estas personas seran mis buenos amigos durante el tiempo mas dificil, durante el tiempo de capcitacion--apenas los conoci. Bueno, manana embarcamos para nuestra Asuncion querida! Dicen que ese mismo dia, nos vamos a quedar con nuestras familias. Siento por la gente que ni hablan ninguna palabrita de espanol.