Hello All!! Well it appears that going with my new hotmail account (daniel.koza@hotmail.com) will be too much of a burden...SO I will be utilising good ol' gmail for all my emailing needs! Sorry to be throwing you all through these burning loops of fire, but unless some horrendous act comes in to play where my hands are taken from me and I can no longer type and no longer write emails then I will expect...that is right...EXPECT to keep close tabs on all of you via (kozadaniel@gmail.com)........Also I found that many of you did not get the first email I sent, therefore I will be copy/paste that whole little thing in to the body of this message. If you have read it then read no further than this paragraph, but if you did not receive the previous email then be sure to read, because there will be a quiz on it when I get back in 27 months, so without further ado, here we go:
CHANGES TO PREVIOUS EMAIL:::::
I had said that the PO Box would be good for the first 10 months...what I meant was the FIRST 10 WEEKS....
Also if a package/letter (or anything for that matter) is sent, make sure to write things like "Par Avion" or "Air Mail" on it...Also if something bulikier sometimes writing "Educational Materials" on it helps..
Cheers,
Daniel Koza
Well the time has come for me to write this wee message to you all. In just under two weeks (February 9th, 2008 at 8.30am to be exact), I will be sitting at Portland International Airport with a large pack on my back, a bag in hand and another duffel collectively filled with choice items for my life over approximately the next 27 months. Why will I be doing this you might ask? Well I have decided to join the Peace Corps and will be beginning my journey to the African nation of Uganda. Some of you have known for months of my pondering over this opportunity whereas other of you will likely be shocked (and hopefully not appalled) over this decision. Although I am excited as a Honey-Baked ham on Presidents Day, this decision has been no walk in the park. For the past couple of months my mind has gone back and forth like two little kids on a teeter-totter, but I have gotten to the point where the fat kid (hello Peace Corps) is kicking the little kid's (basking in the comforts of home) butt and keepin' him floatin' up high in the sky. I am ready I tell you..mentally at least...but oddly the stress and nervousness have not caught up to me yet. But enough of this gibberish, I should tell y'all what I will be doing!
On 02/09/2008 I will be stepping on to a plane to fly out to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I will spend a couple of days with approximately 56 other potential volunteers and on 02/12/2008 we will all fly out and after a quick layover in Brussels will disembark to the soil of Uganda. Our first 10 weeks in Uganda will be spent living with a host family and attending sessions and on-sites along with the other future Peace Corps Volunteers (PCV), and assuming that my language and culture training go along smoothly, I will be officially sworn in as a PCV and will be sent to my assignment. More than likely at this point I will be living on my own and will spend the majority of my days traveling by bike to different school districts..OH, so my official title at this point will be "Primary School Teacher Trainer." Essentially I will help current instructors in multiple school districts in improving their teaching ability. Aside from this primary project, more than likely I will be involved in a number of other side projects which I will not know until I have arrived.
AGONY---This is what I feel at the moment, because moments ago I accidentally deleted my entire email list...Therefore I had to re-type all the emails back in, which took me nearly another hour...SO then I am going to copy and paste a pre-typed email from Microsoft Word, and I accidentally deleted half of this email. So for all you people that this is likely good news, because it is less junk for you to read, but for me it is pure agony. But nonetheless I will leave this email with all of my contact info.
Cheers,
Daniel Koza
MAILING ADDRESS:
Daniel Koza, PCT
United States Peace Corps
P.O. Box 29348
Kampala, Uganda
NOTICE::: This is my postal address for only about the first 10 weeks, and then after that I will have a new address which I will post to you all. Also if anything is sent to me only send things in envelopes (small little white ones or the big padded ones ) as large box type packages tend to get lost/stolen.
I will be setarting a blog as well at http://danielkoza.blogspot.com but the site is in its most premature stages as my technologically challenged self could not figure out how to make things work on the blog...But feel free to check it out. I will be posting this email on there soon.
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