We have a site!

We  are tentatively assigned to a site about 1 1/2 hours E of the capital, over towards MOZ. KUF will work primarily in a refugee camp run by the UNHCR now mostly with Sudanese and some Rwandans and Somali refugees,  and also working with community health workers. 

Mark will be at a primary school (6 to 12 yr olds) and I should also develop a 2ndary project. The school is about 4 k from our homestead - plenty of exercise! Said to be supported by the railway and nicer than most schools here. 

We will live in a small homestead in a small (2 room) house. The father is said to be highly respected in the community, which is viewed as very helpful. 

The 2 PCVs who have been there are a charming young (20s) couple whom we made a point of meeting at the "all hands" July 4 party at the country director's house. Sadly They have already left SZ. We've repeatedly heard "they will be a tough act to follow" and that there is plenty of work at this site. The January weekend we received our PC invitation to SZ we read their blog with interest to see what we were getting into.   Look for Ryan and addy Hall's PC SZ blog if you're interested. Ryan belongs to a road biking group; you can't imagine how incongruous that is in this country. 

   We passed our "mid-terms" today except the language test which will be graded over the weekend from a tape and was really discouraging.