Ветер дует, листья кружит:  Wind Blows, Leaves Twirls. Friends, Family, Unknown Readers, Hello. So I am in the new town.  I am done with Pre Service Training.  I have taken an oath to defend the US constitution and love my fellow Moldovan, and I am officially a Peace Corps Volunteer.  Wohooo!!! A lot has gone [...]

Hey Ynz, it’s been a long time since I wrote.  Things have been kind of crazy over in Moldova.  About a week after my last post — I think it was a week — I began teaching a summer series of English courses at one of the schools in my training village, Ioloveni.  It’s been [...]

I should be studying, but I just wanted to share: I went for a run tonight, and later in the evening than I ever have before. I left the house at about 8:30, when the sunset was at full color.  Because the house guard dog (weighing in at around 9 pounds, standing 7 inches tall, [...]

Я знаю, что это было давно я опубликовал, и я извиняюсь за это.Корпус мира заставляет нас очень занят. Yes.  It’s true. But anyways, I went to visit my permanent site.  I have no pictures for all of you, but I will do my best to convey the place with words.  Anenii Noi, as I said [...]

It has been long, too long, since I last updated the blog.  A lot has gone on in the last two weeks, including several trips to the capitol, lots of language training, and site assignments! The capitol is a very pretty place.  Trees line every street, and it feels very European — I don’t know [...]

So, here is another set of media that I took while on a jog.  It’s a little different this time though; I took some video shots, and I’ve posted them to youtube.  I would have uploaded them straight onto the blog, but wordpress demands 60 bucks to unlock that function.  So it’s on youtube. BTW, [...]

So my jar of peanut butter finally ran out, and I feel like my service in the Peace Corps has finally begun.  It’s been just over two weeks since I left for the Peace Corps, and two weeks ago, I was on a bus headed to JFK airport. The Peace Corps has kept all the [...]

Sorry this has taken so long.  The Peace Corps process up until now has been a little hectic, and I have not had more than a few moments free with internet. This country is beautiful.  Not only the countryside, which roles endlessly, coated in crops and flowers, but also the people, who are more hospitable [...]

So, I wanted to write a post on Joe Sestak and Mark Critz, one on the Red Shirt rebellion in Thailand, but a companion of mine complained that I was not writing anything on the Peace Corps and that process.  My brother said, “What?  I thought it was a travel blog.”  Anyways, so between now [...]

“Now is a time to be bold. We must not stay the course or take the conventional path because the other course is unknown…. [W]e must not allow ourselves to become ‘prisoners of uncertainty.”  – Barack Obama “This won’t be an easy mission, and we’ll have to confront both social and security obstacles, but it [...]

So, I’ve decided that this blog thing is a good idea.  I’d rather not write the same email again, again, and again.  If you’d like to find out what’s going on with me and my 27 months in the Peace Corps, please look here.