Thirteen months ago (one year + one month) from today, I submitted my Peace Corps application. Applying to the Peace Corps is a LONG process. I know other volunteers here who started the process two plus years ago. I applied on a whim after randomly ending up on the Peace Corps website. A day after … Continue reading I Still Can’t Believe It!
The past week was a bit of a long week. We're hitting that point in our training where we are all tired, and ready to be done with classes for 8 hours a day. Here's a recap of the week: We had classes off on Monday afternoon so that we could celebrate the 4th. We … Continue reading Life Lately 7/10/16
I woke up around 7:30 on Sunday morning. I slowly got ready, wrote in my journal, and then joined my host family for breakfast- which was similar to pancakes, but they were fried. We then joined my school director, and drove to a nearby monastery. On our way to the monastery, we stopped to visit … Continue reading Site Visits: Sunday in Festelita
As I've mentioned a couple of times, we visited our future sites this weekend. I met my school director in Chisinau a little before 8:00 on Saturday morning (which meant getting the 6:30 rutiera from Costesti). I was pretty proud of myself for making it to the Stefan cel Mare monument, our designated meeting place, … Continue reading Site Visits: Saturday in Festelita
First, Happy 4th of July!!! I spent the afternoon with some volunteer friends at a local restaurant just hanging out and enjoying our afternoon free of classes! This was a busy week! We had our regular language and technical classes Monday and Tuesday, our first language assessment on Wednesday, our hub site day in Chisinau … Continue reading Life Lately 7/4/16
The Oke Den 