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Re: PCV's having Visitors from US
Both my parents and my brother came to visit me at my post in Bohicon. My mother and brother each came for a month and my father was there for two weeks. We spent a fair bit of time at my post where they got to watch me teach, visit with my neighbors and colleagues and experience my day to day life: zemijohns, marché, etc, etc....
With my mother I had some vacation time and we traveled to Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo. My brother actually traveled to northern Bénin with some of my PCV friends without me, as I was packing up and preparing for COS.
Returning home after two years in Bénin was a little easier knowing that there were at least three people who would understand when I felt overwhelmed with a grocery store or bewildered by some of the idiosycracies of the American lifestyle.
Have a GREAT experience and good luck!
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did any of you have friends visit you during service? tell me abt it!!
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