EAP

It’s Friday so we headed to CCT again and I stopped at the bank for money and it seems they have put some of our Shadow money in already even though it’s not supposed to be there. This is confusing but at least I have money now :-).

With Shadow coming up, we covered the Emergency Action Plan (EAP). This tells us what to do at the different levels of preparedness. Basically, it’s like the color alert levels in the US. Right now we are on Standfast because of the election Sunday. Although nothing big is expected to happen, all of the PCVs/PCTs have to stay where they are and not travel. The PCVs for next week had to come early because of it. So if we do need to be evacuated at any point (not likely in Tz), I now know the procedures. The staff also told us today that our site announcements were pushed back a day. This means we have to wait another whole day to find out where we will be living and teaching for the next 2 years. At least it allows some main PC staff like our Country Director and the other 3 Americans on staff to come.

Last week, Arlene (PCMO) said she would bring us the cookbooks this week so I asked her about it during a break in her sessions. She said she forgot them in Dar but to ask her again when we started into the next session. I did as she asked and it turns out she didn’t forget them! She definitely had me fooled – good one Arlene. I’m psyched to try cooking something for my family and all the foods I’ll cook at site. Mmmm….

After CCT, Megan (M) and I walked around Morogoro looking for kitenges so we can have dresses made. Megan found a great teal-colored one but I didn’t have any luck with a red or maroon one that doesn’t have a big print on it. Guess I’ll have to go back to look some more.