The start of the Adventure

I have made it to Akron Pennsylvania, after some lovely family time at the lake and a fun road trip with the parents.  The adventures start here because this is where I get to do a cross-cultural orientation.  There are other SALTers going to countries around the world, as well as IVEPers who are going to Canada and the USA.  There are 26 countries represented here, so it is quite the multicultural event. We are learning about MCC, about cross-cultural interactions, about the cultures we are going to and many more things.  We have music every morning from a group from a different region in the world, which is quite interesting.  This morning was Asia and here is a clip of the song they led with actions.

 We have also had a lot of time to talk with all the other participants, which has been interesting and enlightening.  There is one person here who is from Lesotho and was working with Growing Nations (which is what I will be doing), so it has been nice to here a little about the community I will be living in.