Live-in

My live-in week was amazing and I couldn’t be happier with my placement in Aguie. My house is pretty cool too—I have a nice size porch with a hangar above it and mosaic tiling, a very large living room with a double wrap around couch, a kitchen area, two bedrooms with a king size bed and frame in one, and a bathroom and shower. I live right behind the combined middle and high school along a strip of teachers and school directors. I spent the majority of my time there walking around town and starting to meet the people I will be working with when I return. I’ll start out by working at the Inspection in Aguie, similar to a school board in the U.S., but I’ll also be working a lot in the community and with school kids. CYE volunteers no longer teach English in schools but we do continue to work with school age children outside of the classroom like starting different types of clubs; English clubs, theater clubs, soccer clubs, etc. I’m really excited to get things started when I go back to Aguie because the people that I met there were very enthusiastic and supportive of the idea of having a Peace Corps Volunteer and of the different possibilities that lay before us.

The day before I went to my site and the day before we came back to Niamey, I stayed at the PC hostel in the city of Maradi. There is a hostel in every regional capital where volunteers can stay for “free,” we pay monthly dues for electricity and stuff, when coming in to do banking, working on projects, or before traveling since it takes about 10-12 hours to get from Maradi to Niamey, the capital. The night we arrived was really nice because most of the volunteers in our region came in to welcome us to Team Maradi. It was a great time and I really can't wait to get back out there.