Counting Down the Days

I met my new permanent host family and am super excited!!  This family is unbelievable and I don't even know exactly where to begin.  Super nice, supportive, and patient with my language and understanding of the culture.  Definitely they will play a huge part in making another transition smooth.  I already feel super comfortable around them.  I am something like their 10th volunteer.  My primary project will be working with children in the orphanage and their are many opportunities for secondary projects as well.  Four days were spent touring my site, which as I have already mentioned am fairly familiar with.  But now I have a few ideas on where I want to start.  I will need a counterpart and also I must continue to progress my language skills.  Basically I am taking over a site from another volunteer who will soon depart back for the states.  Currently I am still really nervous but they were able to give me a pep talk and answer a lot of my questions.  Luckily I will have a short period of time after swearing in, which I can continue to familiarize myself with my site.  I expect it to be an extremely concentrated period of time.  There is only about a week left of PST, and pretty much from there Peace Corps cuts you loose.  YIKES!!  SCARY!  My schedule is packed with things to do, it kinda actually feels like finals week, but still much different.  The weather here is great!!!