All is Well

Hi Everyone,
This is the first time I’ve had a chance to use the internet since I’ve been here, but I’m doing just fine. I’m in a small town a few miles to the west of Almaty. I’ll be training here until the first week in November. There are seventy or so people in my entire class, but only nine others are in my town and we’ve all become pretty good friends. I’m living with a host family that has three boys about my age. They’re all really cool and very understanding of the weird American staying with them for three months. We’ve been studying language non-stop and next week we’ll begin team teaching with local English teachers at the school. The weather here has been great so far (it won’t last though). We’ll find out our site assignments in October; I could end up in the north (really cold winters) or the south (hot summers), and since Kazakhstan is four times the size of Texas I might have to ride a train for a couple days to see some of the friends I’ve made, we’ll see. The updates will be more lengthy and more frequent if I get regular internet time later on, but for now I would guess I might post something once a month or so.