We got our site announcements today! It's been a long week with waiting to find out, especially for the Bembas because we could be placed in three different provinces. They made a big outline of Zambia on the floor with tape and marked each of the available sites on it, and then one by one they called us and told us where we'd be going.
I am going to Musa in Northern Province. It's about 20km from the provincial capital of Kasama. My site is 2.5km from the tarmac, and the nearest volunteer is a RAP volunteer named Mike, and he is 20km away. I'm a second generation volunteer, which means there has been one volunteer there previously and one will be there after me. The PCV who was visiting us this week at PST told me that the volunteer who is at my site now and is finishing up his service was also an MI from Rollins, so that's fun. That's pretty much all I know about it at the moment, but next week I'll get to meet my counterpart from the community for a host workshop and the week after that I get to head up there for second site visit.
Even though I know barely anything about my site, I'm absolutely thrilled with my placement and I can't wait to meet my counterpart and find out more.
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