Day 1 as a Peace Corps Trainee has come and gone. Spent all last night packing up until the last possible minute. There was a little bit of stress with the realization that there was no possible way I was going to be able to take everything I wanted to with the alloted 80 pounds for checked-in luggage. Flew out of Logan and arrived in Washington DC at a little after 11am. There are 33 people in the staging group headed over to Burkina Faso. (supposed to be 34, but one person wasn't able to make it) So far so good, the afternoon was a high-level overview of various Peace Corps information - nothing very specific about Burkina Faso itself. Tomorrow's another full day of general information and then Wednesday it's shots and off to Africa.