While you can’t get everything you would have been able to find at home, you can get everything you need and more. While products like curry paste or Brie cheese or Dr.Pepper, are not available at a regular grocery store, you can find these products at some of the specialty stores in Moldova. Living in … Continue reading
This past week, I had my last day of work with the NGO I have worked at almost everyday for the last two years. This last day we went to a field day with most of the youth volunteers and some of the staff. The field day was going ok, until it started pouring rain … Continue reading
As Peace Corps Volunteers we spend a lot of time complaining. When we get together often we discuss or bemoan the question of what does our service mean? Why are we even here? Do these people (Moldovans in my case) even want us here? What does a successful service mean? I spent a lot of … Continue reading
I have developed these ten bits of advice, after hours of journaling, many long conversations with friends and family, after runs through fields of sunflowers, after crying alone and laughing with others, after having really bad days and really good ones, after listening to and evaluating the insights I have been given and after lots … Continue reading