We hope you all had a wonderful day of gratitude back home! We celebrated a day early here, on Wednesday, with a huge potluck feast, including turkey (which is called Peru in Portuguese!) and all the trimmings. Everyone began the day with some serious nerves though because we would find out our sites at some point that day. The schedule was all mixed up, so we didn´t know exactly when the news would come, but eventually we all got our site envelopes and opened them simultaneously. Most people seemed pretty happy, although there were some surprises, including our placement. We will be going to Tete province, in the mountains near Malawi. We will both be teaching in a small school grades 8-10, living in a nice house in the town with lots of neighbors. There will only be 2 other PC Mozambique volunteers in our province, but luckily we have each other, and possible some volunteers from PC Malawi on the other side of the border. Hopefully since our town is in the mountains it won´t get too hot, although we are expecting lots of rain from the monsoon, which begins now in December. We will finish up with our last week of training and then celebrate our Swearing-In as volunteers next Tuesday the 8th. Then we fly north! We are very grateful for this opportunity to serve together here in Mozambique and for our family and friends around the world. We will be thinking about you all during the holiday season! Also, our house has a spare bedroom, so we will be able to host any visitors ready for adventure! (Photo is of our Thanksgiving touch football game!)
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