But let me start at getting here to Akron, Pa. My flight left Toronto, about 10 mins behind, but that didn't make any difference to me and my other 2 SALTer's I was traveling with. We sat separated and on different sides of the plane. I sat beside a really friendly guy who was coming home to the States, from Peru. We chatted pretty much the whole flight. He has traveled a lot, and had been to SA before, but years ago. So I asked him question about SA, and he tried to answer them the best he could. Once we landed and got our luggage, we were left instructions to meet another flight coming in after ours. The flight number of this flight we soon learned didn't exist! So, we quickly made some phone calls here to Akron, and received the correct number which was wrong by 2 digits. We also learned that we had to walk from our F terminal, to terminal A, and that was a 10-15 min walk around the outside of the airport, and it was really hot and humid! Once we got to Terminal A, we started asking people about this flight that was to be arriving at that terminal. We got two completely different stories, one was that the airline that we were to meet, flies together with another airline and their terminal is terminal E. We had just came from F, and we didn't want to walk all the way back from where we came from. The second story, which we found to be accurate, was that the flight was delayed. And we finally met up with everybody and drove to Akron. My flight arrived around 1:25 pm ish and we finally headed out of the airport around 4 pm ish.
Housing here at Akron is really neat. We are all broken up into 5 different houses. The Africa house, Americas house, Middle East/Europe house, Asia house and the Manor. We are then paired up with a room mate. My room mate is Yvonne Hlatshwayo, she is an IVEPer and is from Zimbabwe. Her placement is in New Hamburg, ON!
I am slowly trying to meet everybody, learning their names, where their from and where they're going. It's hard to remember every body's faces and names, but we do wear name tags so that helps some.
We do get some free time, so I have been able to check e-mails. We are learning lots and I can't wait to fly to South Africa. I've been learning a lot more about MCC than I knew before I left home. Also, I've been going to sessions that are helping us to adjust to living in other cultures which have been fun, especially interactive ones.
Well I'm not sure what more to write, it's only been a couple days so far. So, signing off from Akron, 
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