Sometimes we all experience things in our lives that we don’t quite know how to process.  It is now two weeks later, I still do not know how I feel about the Stara Nova Godina festival in Vevchani.  Stara Nova Godina literally means Old New Year and I believe the reference is to when New [...]

So the thing about Macedonian holidays is that you never really know how many there are and when they are going to spring out and scare you like an ultimate-punching ninja. I can be walking down the street and -bam!- it’s Epiphany! Freaky! Actually, I am fairly sure that everyone else knows when the holidays [...]

Well Hello, Well let’s start off on a high note- I have the internetz in my very own apartment!  Huzzah! As we speak ( ha ha, I just realized how dumb that comment is) I am sitting in my apartment wearing booty shorts and listening to some post grunge American music and connecting with you, dear [...]

Hi friends.  I thought it would be a good idea to let you all know what I have been up to.  That way maybe you can visualize what I am doing here in Macedonia when you are doing your American thing.  You are driving to work, while at the same time, I am walking home [...]

Well Hello, First off, OMG, I am sorry for being a neglectful blogger.  Sorry friends.  Worst.  Blogger.  Ever.  But truly, these last two weeks have flown by!  So much has happened that I want to tell you about!  So, hey, why don’t you stay awhile and pour yourself a beer or a cup of organic juice [...]

A BREAKTHROUGH!  No, I don’t speak Macedonian.  No, I don’t know where my job or my home will be.  No, I haven’t received my Peace Corps issued heater (seriously!).  But these issues are completely trivial because I found out that…wait for it… I AM AN ATHLETE! I know, you all thought I was totally clumsy, right. I [...]

Well Hello, Hmm where to start…Orientation Week ended last Saturday and since then many many things have happened.  I suppose the most important is that since then, I have been placed in a smaller group of volunteers (5 as opposed to the entire group of 35) in Sveti Nicole to continue Pre-Service Training for the next [...]

Well Zdravo, Ok, I’m here deeeep breath … and I’m OK! I mean I’m Dobre! I landed in Skopje on Monday and was greeted by our Country Director and his glowing staff of host country nationals and current PCVs.  Then it was off to the town of Kumanovo and the hotel Satelit where our week of (dis)orientation [...]

Well hello there.  I officially have one week left at home before I leave for Philadelphia and beyond (and really, really beyond) and I am trying to prepare myself for departure and leaving home for two years.  So I have come to the decision that I am living, to a lesser extent, within a Mitch [...]