Quick Overview/Sorry for the delay!!!

Bonjour tout le monde!
Excusez-moi pour ecrire en retard - l'internet - ay guinnee!

Now that I'm so behind in reaching out to the world, I'm not sure where to start???
Si on veut, on pourrait m'appeller Almamy Camara, maintenant.  C'est le nom que ma famille (a Dubreka) m'a donne.  (Here's a link to google translate, et desole en avance pour tout le franglais.)

We'll try to make this one a quick sort of summary:
Still in training, but nearing the end (Swearing In is on the 21st or 22nd of September). 
We started however with Staging in Philly - the first time we all met one another in person.  This was quickly followed by our departure from NYC, but to make it from Philly to NYC we had to take a bus, and pendant that formative bus ride we watched none other than I Love You, Man.  Such a perfect film to start such incredible friendships! Le premier chose qui m'a frappe was how quickly we bonded! Tout de suite!  Between one last sip of good craft American beer in Philly, decent Belgium Beer in Brussels, and a bunch of time traveling we got to know each other quickly!  (Also, right now, I would like to appologize for the terrible writing, it's going to be very stream of consciousness and a little rushed since I've been so slow to updating this and thus have a lot to update on - how was that for a sample of bad writing, eh?)

Once in country we spent the first half week or so in Conakry, Guinea's capital, learing more about the Peace Corps and specifially PC Guinea.  While in Conakry we saw, essentially, 0% of the city.  We stayed at the burreau or a bit of time down at the Beach Bar.  And I know I've mentioned beer a lot already, but no we are not lushes!

After Conakry we left for what would be our home for the next ~3 months, DUBREKA!  Our time in Dubreka started with our host family adoption ceremony.  My host family, as you hopefully got from above is the Camara family - a very common family name in the Basse Cote.  (Guinea Fact [abv. GF- not to be confused with Guinean Franc]: Four regions of Guinea {from West to East/South}: Basse Cote, Fouta (Diallo)/Moyenne, Haute, Forestiere (no PCV=PeaceCorpsVolunteer currently serve here)) - looks like coding, kinda, n'est-ce pas?
When I refer to my host family, usually, this refers to more than just my hote famille propre qui est: Solomon (mon pere), ma mere (Mme Camara??), Tusan (mon frere de 9ans), Susan (ma soeur de 2ans), et last but not least petit David (mon frere de 3 mois).  A ma maison, il y a au moins 3 familles la-bas.  Ma famille propre is Christian, however Islam is very much the dominant religion in Guinea. Thus, not surprisingly, but still somewhat surprising, the other families in my family are Muslim.  A cause de ca, I participated in Ramadan with ma famille - not eating or drinking during daylight hours.  This meant that I got up at ~4:30am to eat breakfast of fish and some noodles and onion with bread or a mayonnaise sandwich and then broke fast with them at 19h30 = 7:30pm.  This sounds hard, and it is kind of, but I was being so over fed prior to le mois de Carem, that this was a wonderful repreive! haha.

I'll do another post later about food, so I'll skip that for now...
I'll also talk about site visit in another post (which is kind of a part of right now) and with that post maybe I'll post about what has been included in training.
Donc, I think I'll let it go at that for now.

Please, ask me questions or ask me to elaborate about various things in the blogs to come.  I would really love to hear from you guys and have this be a form of communication to people, since I clearly have a lack of capability to reach out to you all.
Also, if the franglais is too much please let me know and I'll try to write more in english.
Also, if the font is aweful I'll change it, please let me know on this one in particular.

So much love!
Geoff in Guinea
Almamy en Guinnee