This blog (as stated above) will follow my tribulations as I spend twenty-seven months in Mozambique with the Peace Corps. Specifically, I will be teaching chemistry to high school students in Mozambique's official language: Portuguese.
Prior to one month ago I did not know any Portuguese. This problem was somewhat mitigated through a one-month subscription to Rosetta Stone (courtesy of the Peace Corps). However, at my current rate of study I am on pace to learn Portuguese in time for the 2016 Olympics. I can only hope that the IOC decides to hold them in Rio (they speak Portuguese in Brazil) and that the USA Basketball team suddenly needs me (obviously this is not realistic).
That is all for now, I leave for staging in Philadelphia on September 28 and for Mozambique (via JFK, Senegal, and Johannesburg) on September 30th.
