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
About halfway through PST (pre-service training), there is a big event called "Site Announcements" where our future permanent sites are revealed. This is followed within the next couple of days with our site visits, where we go for 2-3 days to visit our new sites. We meet our partners, check out the town, and our … Continue reading Site Announcements!
As I mentioned in my last post, we got the opportunity to visit the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History in Chisinau yesterday. The museum was quite large, and had some great exhibitions, but it also has little funding. It is housed in a beautiful, old building. The architecture was quite stunning but building is also … Continue reading Cultural Excursion: National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History
This week was another busy week of language and technical training! I think this week was the hardest in terms of language that we've had so far. We learned a LOT of new vocabulary, grammar, and such, and it was hard to get our brains to remember it all. Here's what we covered in language … Continue reading Life Lately 6/26/16
Yesterday, following our language classes in the morning, the Peace Corps staff here in Moldova organized a cultural excursion to visit three Moldovan monasteries. At each monastery, we went in the churches, explored the grounds, and a priest/monk/nun told us a bit about their faith and the history of the monastery. The first monastery we … Continue reading Cultural Excursion: Moldovan Monasteries
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