Best Week Ever!

I've had a few great things happen this week, and I'll start with the least exciting and move to the most exciting:

1. I was offered an HIV/AIDS internship with Tapestry Health. I will be working at the Bay St. location in Springfield. I am honestly not sure what this entails yet, but it will look good on a resume no matter what and will help me learn more about HIV/AIDS, which will be very useful in the Peace Corps.

2. Barack Obama was elected, but you already know this, just had to add it because it is so exciting!

3. I was offered a job with AMR, a national ambulance company, as an EMT. I had very short notice that I was going to have an interview that included a practical and written exam and luckily I passed both! Now I just have to pass the physical agility test and drug test and I am all set to start working. Wish me luck on lifting 150 lbs!

4. The most exciting news: I finally got my official Peace Corps Assignment and I am leaving June 2, 2009 to go to Ghana and be a health/water and sanitation educator. I am going to work towards the eradication of Guinea Worm, HIV/AIDS prevention, Malaria prevention, and water and sanitation improvement. Ghana sounds like a really awesome country. It is on the coast of West Africa and is supposed to be one of the most friendly countries in Africa. English is the official language, but is not widely spoken, so I'll have to learn the most common language called Twi and another native language depending what region I am assigned to. Twi seems very difficult so far because it is a tonal language and it has more letters than the English alphabet, but I'm sure I'll be able to manage. I'm so excited and have been reading a lot of stuff about the Peace Corps in Ghana and it just sounds amazing. I can't wait!
If you ever get bored and want to know what peace corps volunteers do in Ghana, look at some blogs at http://www.peacecorpsjournals.com/gh.html.

So that's my exciting week! I hope you all had a good week as well.