Just wanted to write and keep everyone updated! It's been awhile. I now know where I'm going to be living for the next two years! Drum roll..
It's a village of 5,500 people outside of the city of Pavlodar in the north east of Kazakhstan. which means...cold! I will be the first Peace Corps volunteer in this village. I'm pretty pumped and honored about that. Basically, it means that I did a good job in our Practicum and the pc trusts me to do a decent job of developing the site for future volunteers. I'll also be the first American most of the people there meet.. plenty of pressure all around. THere are a bunch of PCVs in the city..about 20 minutes away, so I will be getting to know them and we'll spend a lot of time together. Tomorrow.. we go to a conference in Almaty and meet our counterparts (who I will teach with in my village). Friday at midnight.. we will get on the train for Pavlodar. It arrives Sunday morning at 7am, so about 30 hours total.
Next week I'll be busy meeting new host families, teaching a few classes, and introducing myself. Yes, in Russian. Shall be a good time.

I'll let everyone know how it goes. You can read about Pavlodar here... aboutkazakhstan.com/ Pavlodar_oblast.shtml б