Peepville's Foundation and Money

We've layed our foundation and voted on a design for our money. Now we just have to print our money and divide it up so that we can begin buying the materials to start construction on our personal property.

This is me and my partner with some of our village's participants.

This is the design that was voted for to be our "villis" (Peepville banknotes).Here are some other designs the students came up with:Here the students and I are working on dividing Peepville's land between privat and public spaces. The elected ministers of land drew up the land plan for division of private space, and we are helping them with the drawing of the floor plan.

Christmas Celebration at A. Donici (My School)

Crăciun Fericit!

My host mom with is a class master at my school and her 6th grade class put on a nice Christmas play. All of the classes also performed songs and dances. These Moldovan kids are very talented in the performing arts!Baba (Old Lady) Mariana

Peepville in the Making

Our Village project is really coming along. I have a great partner helping me facilitate the project, one of my students and now good friend, Olesea, a 12th grader at my school. Each student along with my friend Adam, (my Peace Corps volunteer site mate in our village) and I, have made our peeps (the small village community citizens). Each of us has made a biography for each of our peeps and the newly created peep citizens have voted on the name "Peepville" for our town. Each peep has its own unique history, personality and profession and I think that our diverse group of Peepville citizens will make for an interesting experience of living in Peepville.

Here are some scenes from Peepville's development up to now:

Some of Peepville's active and thoughtful citizens, from left to right: Guillherme Miguel Pereira (a world renowned champion Brazilian soccer player), Tony Hawk (an architect and doctor), and Tamara Bordeaux (a professional surfer), who just moved to Peepville from France because she was experiencing some discrimination for being Roma (a.k.a Gypsy, although, as the Peepville citizens are learning as well, the term Gypsy is not preferred by the Roma ethnic group).

The list of our national and village laws.
We have also begun printing money to be divided among the peep citizens and we have layed the foundations and designed a village plan to begin purchasing materials and construction of our individaul houses. Once the houses have been constructed and each of our peeps has a comfortable place to sleep we will begin developing Peepville's public space and soon we will be elcting Peepville's government officials.

Pictures and biographies of our peeps.