"Don't you see your dreams lie right in the palm of your hands?"

Today I feel so ready.

It's a gorgeous spring day in Ohio; the sun is out, the wind is blowing just enough to be fun, the ice cream truck is tinkering around the neighborhood, and the flowers are out in full force in my front yard.

It's one of those days where I'm so happy to be alive, inspired to get outside and do something positive for the world. And I'm so grateful for the opportunity I have to go and live my dream in Africa.

I'm ready for bucket baths and squat toilets and dusty red paths. I'm ready to speak Swahili and plant a garden and read a book a day during monsoon season. I'm ready to learn as many ways possible to make rice and beans (but I'm eating tons of all the delicious American food I love right now to prepare for this). I'm ready to meet amazing people with the same goals as me and amazing people who live so differently from me that my world will be rocked. I'm ready to do my best to change the world for the better and fully prepared that the world is going to radically change me.

53 days. I'm pumped. Bring it on.

Pre-Service Training Address

This will be my mailing address during my Pre-Service Training in Tanzania. I will be here from June 16-August 26, then my address will change when I move to my permanent site.
Carrie Hoffman, PCT
Peace Corps Training Site
PO Box 9123
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Supposedly packages take 3-6 months surface mail, 3-8 weeks airmail. So if you want to send me something at training, you probably should do it as soon as I get there! Also, letters will be much faster, so send lots of those!!!!!

Less than 2 months to go and I still have so much work to do to get ready! Where did the time go????