Ok, so I finally have the word on what is going on with us. Basically, after discussions between Peace Corps and the State Department, the decision came down to temporarily suspend the program in Guinea due to a lot of uncertainties and safety concerns. For the last week or so, all of us volunteers have been making our decisions to either end our service, transfer, or go back to the US and wait for the program to reopen.
I decided on a transfer for a variety of reasons and so I had to send in my resume to the programs in Africa (and possibly outside of Africa) that could take me. All of these volunteers who I consider very much to be my family are now taking off all over the place. we have volunteers going to Niger, Senegal, Benin, Botswana, Madagascar, Mali, etc. Me, I am going to the Northern province of Zambia to continue to do Public Health work.
Looks like I will be spending 2 weeks learning Bemba, the local language in my province, and then I will go out to site.
So, a couple of things about Zambia... from what I can find, there are a couple of very Urban centers but past those cities it gets really spread out and rural. Apparently you can find a lot of the original culture out in the villiages. As I get some more info, I will definately share it...
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