Made it through the first 3 months!

Hello everyone!
So, I have made it through the first 3 months at site and to celebrate/conclude that little benchmark, Peace Corps has a 2 week training in Dedza, where we had our Pre-Service training. It went pretty good. We went over ALOT of stuff including: natural medicine, proposal and grant writing, how to start income generating activities for groups like women's groups and People Living With AIDS groups, field trip to an awesome cultural center, learning that we can get into good grad schools, and how to come up with project ideas. It was weird having the counterparts (people we work with at the health center that we had to bring) for the second week of training. The only thing about my counterpart was that he is the boss of the other HSAs (health surveillance assistant) and is really smart and motivated. So, we had to come up with a 3-6 month "action plan" and I think we came up with some pretty good ideas...so, I will try to start both a women's and girls' groups for empowerment, get mosquito net incentive program in the maternity ward where the women get to take the mosquito nets home with them, and try to find out how to get untrained traditional birth attendants trained so that baby delivery is better in the rural villages. It sounds like a lot, but hey, I'm here for 2 years and that leaves alot of time to get a lot of things accomplished. I am very excited about trying to get the TBAs trained and how to improve the health status of women and children. I am excited to see my kitten, Mauwa, and to see if any chicks have hatched and how many there are! I will finally get to check snail mail at the end of the week in Zomba! I will be back the week of Thanksgiving for some oh-so-fun physical therapy for my torn ligament in my ankle and for some good food and then I head north to help teach biology at a Peace Corps summer school program! I have alot of stuff going on and if you have questions, feel free to ask! Hope all is well for you! I love and miss you all LOTS!!