No more RIM, hello Togo!

So, as some of you may know, last Wednesday the Peace Corps called to inform me that our training class for Mauritania had been canceled. They said that they were still not able to obtain the visas, and they were not optimistic that they would be able to get them any time soon. So, rather than have us wait until August and then cancel, they went ahead and canceled us so that there would be a better chance of reassigning all of us to different projects. I was a little sad, but I know that it is out of my control, and I was happy that the Peace Corps made this decision so that I could get placed in a more stable program.

After this conversation, I called my new placement officer to find out what the odds were of me getting reassigned soon, and she said that she would probably know something in the next few days. She also asked if I was flexible about where in the world I was going and about my job description and I said yes.

So fast forward to Friday. I get an email with my new placement and it's in TOGO! I will also no longer be a Health volunteer, instead I will be a Girls Education and Empowerment volunteer which I am so excited about. My new departure date is scheduled for September 16 (give or take a day or so). I will still be speaking French and probably another local language there, so I am continuing to practice that.

I am really excited about my new placement, as I feel like the job is a great fit for me and I have heard great things about the Togolese people and the country. This new placement makes me feel like all of this waiting and problems with Mauritania was for a reason, and patience pays off. I will be making a new blog, as this one is obviously not relevant anymore. When I make that in the next couple of days, I will post the link on here for the two of you who are reading this :)