First day of orientation

My school orientation didn't go quite as it was planned. Apparently a storm last night created some sort of sink hole in the road that goes up to the school. So our buses had to turn around and go back to Ciudad Colon. They improvised and held the first day of orientation inside a gymnasium in Ciudad Colon, instead. And they apparently plan to hold the next two days of orientation inside the gym, too. So I still haven't been able to see my school yet, which stinks. But it's been cool to meet everyone. Here's a photo of everyone in the gym.



I met people from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Cameroon, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Japan, Norway, Brazil, Italy, The Philippines ... and that's all I can remember for now.

At the end of the day, they had this group of local kids come and do this really cool dance for us:


I'm going to head out now to meet some of the people from the program, so I'll write more later!