You want me to go where???.... And do what???

4- the number of cups of shay

(Tea) I drank.

14- the number of cups of buna (coffee) I drank.

33- the number of times I introduced myself formally. 

4- also the number of marriage people's I received.

6- the number of phone calls I received from people I don't know that I think stole my phone number from my bank records.

The number of times I was laughed at when I spoke oramifa?

Unquantifable.

These numbers represent a fraction of my two days at site for site visit. The town that I will be living in is called Chituu. Everytime I see the spelling it is different therefore everytime I write the name it will be different.

My new home is a small town about 20 minutes by bus from Woliso a larger town in Ormoia regin Ethiopia. I am the first volunteer that this town will have. It is also one if the smaller sites in Peace corps Ethiopia. So far I am extremely excited to move to Ciituu to begin working. All of the organizations and sectors of government at the woreda level seem to be extremely excited to work with me and have ideas of ways I can help the community. They all seem to understand that I am poor and in fact there to share knowledge and technical training which is fan-freaking tastic.

The woreda that I am living in is known to be one of the most beautiful places in all of Ethiopia. There is a crater lake near me that I will get the chance to visit when I return. I did however snap some photos of the views that I am forced to see everyday for the next two years:

My life sucks right?

God look at that terrible endless blue skies and land of trees. Rough.

If that isn't bad enough I have to play with baby trees. 

If you didn't pick up on the sarcasm of the previous statements this blog is not one you should be reading. 

Reality is I got extremely lucky and will be hugging my PCLV as soon as I see him. Not only is my site amazing but my counterpart is great and really excited to work with me. He spend a afternoon introducing me to his family and making sure I knew that they were now my family. He also has what is quite possibly the cutest 5 month old baby girl that I have ever seen. 

Moral of this story is that when you put good energy out you get good energy back. I cannot wait to begin working with the community on projects. 

In Amharic there is a saying " ichaloau" ... Which I most likely just butchared the spelling of... That means anything is possible. 

Ichaloau. It's the truth people.