Peace Corps Day at School

As part of the 50th Anniversary of Peace Corps celebration, each day of this 50th year of Peace Corps a volunteer celebrates at their work-site. For my day I taught each of my classes about Peace Corps and quizzed them about the lesson for prizes. They enjoyed it, learned a lot and won some fun Peace Corps prizes.

Happy Birthday Nadia!

I was invited to dinner for a neighbor's birthday celebration. She is a very sweet and talented lady. She specializes in Moldovan handicrafts.

Nadia with her son Nicu. He's my running partner sometimes.

Her chickens were hatching.

Village Road Work

My host family had bought rocks to put in their roads a while back and some people from the village offered their trucks to help us bring the rocks to the roads in my host's neighborhood. I got to help lay the rocks in the roads. A fun day of good village infrastructure work. This is now much better than themud they usually have to drive and walk through.

At the end of our work day, Doamna Maria invited us in for a little wine, and then sent us off with some fresh eggs. My host mom just kept saying, "as if we don't have enough eggs, haha".

My Favorite Houses in Moldova

This one has a pond and a nice big garden. I pass it, and Ms. Armenia, everyday on my way to and from work. She is always working on something. You can see her laundry bucket sitting there, she was hand waching the sheets that day.

If you agree that the conditions of our school's kitchen need improving, please click the link below and read about our project, and if you have the means, please donate. The students and I, at the Alexandru Donici Lyceum (Elementary, Middle School, and High School) truly appreciate any help we can get on this kitchen and canteen repair project:

https://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=donate.contribute.projDetail&projdesc=261-210

Hai La Hora!

The Hora is the traditional Moldovan dance done at almost all celebrations and parties. This is a video of the students at the school where I teach English doing the Hora at our Valentine's Day celebration. Just click on the link to see the video.
http://www.facebook.com/v/871068390025