A little late, but ah well

Well i meant to do this while i was in Philly but never got round to doing it so nows as good a time as ever. Ive a few older posts ill tag in here just cause,

I wrote this on the flight over so its kinda the first one
Well hello everybody, im writing this from a south african airways flight on my way to Dakar. Incidentally if youre looking for an airlines that doesn't charge you for drinks, both alcoholic and food id recommend these guys. Yay for free gin and tonics! Well my orientation stuff in Philadelphia is done, a very nice city, kinda puts cincy to shame. At the same time though its got a lot more people and doesn't have the same type of fell as home. I managed to get a run in while i was there which was cool, totally gives you a different perspective of a city. We were staying in the historic district and so my run took me past alot of some cool sites. While we were in Philly i was able to get in touch with a buddy of mine from HS who lives in Philly and chill with him for my last evening, last night, in the US. Its crazy how people grow up, the last time i saw matt stein was quite some time ago really, but it was cool to catch up. Matt hooked me up and gave me a bunch of music to listen to while on my travels which i owe him big time for. We left Philly this morning after going to some government building to get our yellow fever immunizations and then took off for New York City. Im happy to say this was the first shot ive received in quite some time that ive not tried to pass out on, so im very happy about that. Its weird i was more nervous about getting that then the whole buggering off for two years and now that its out of the way im feeling really good about everything. Im with a group of about 40 other volunteers who are all cool folk. All very like minded, go figure. Senegal should be a very interesting experience though and with the first three months being kinda centered around the learning and integrating aspect, i feel like i should be able to handle it. I was rather surprised about the diversity in the group, in the sense of where everyone came from. It is truly an american group with people from east west and everywhere in between. But the group should be a very encouraging and helpful group to be with. Interestingly enough i had kinda figured that there wouldnt be anyone else from around cincy or ohio, but there was a girl from N.Kentucky and a guy from Toledo. so that surprised me a great deal. Well im looking forwards to getting this 8 hour flight over with, even if we get in at 513am, and im sure ill have more to say when i get there and get all oriented at the training center.