So, what's happened in the last month? First, I found out where I'm going to be living for the next two years! I'm up in the northeast, pretty close to Algeria, which should be exciting. I got to go visit my site for a week, and although I didn't get to see/do a whole lot while I was there, what I saw looked chill. Then I came back to my training site, turned 23, and got super sick. Fortunately I was healthy in time for eid, which was this past Wednesday/Thursday.
Eid L'Kabir was pretty exciting. My family had bought a sheep a few days earlier, and my little brothers and sisters kept prancing around the house/running up to me and saying, "Meetra! Meetra! Today the sheep (draw finger across throat)." The kids also got new clothes and money, but they were far more excited about the death of the sheep. And then at long last it was time for the family to gather on our roof. My little brothers wrestled the sheep to the ground, my dad drew out his knife, and before I knew there was sheep blood all over the place. I'll save you the rest of the details, but suffice it to say that after the whole affair was over my mom and I ate cake and that was awesome. We've been eating sheep ever since which has been less than awesome. A word of advice - brains look a lot like eggs. I learned this the hard way.
But alas, training is (almost) over now. I've left my CBT site and returned to Mehdia, where I'll spend a few more days chillaxing with the other trainees until Wednesday when I officially become a Peace Corps Volunteer! Then I'm off to the cold north to begin actually doing stuff. It might be awhile until the next post, but go to my Facebook and look at dead sheep pictures to tide you over until then.
