Buna ziua! I am now in Moldova. We got here Wednesday evening after a 11 hour flight from JFK to Frankfurt (it should have been 8 but we sat on the plane for 3 hours at JFK waiting for thunderstorms to pass by. Good times!), and a 3 hour flight from Frankfurt to Chishinau (the capital city). I don't have time for a long post at this point, so I'll just list some of the highlights of my trip so far:
-getting to know the other PCVs (Peace Corps Volunteers--get used to my acronymns. The Peace Corps is in love with them).
-eating some Moldovan food (Most of it is really good, My only complaint so far is the fact that they put mayonnaise on just about everything, including pizza. You haven't lived until you've eaten mayonnaise pizza!)
-starting to learn Romanian (it is a Romance language, so my 3 semesters of college Spanish is actually helping a bit)
-getting ready to meet my PST (pre-service training) host family. They don't speak English, and my Romanian consists of about 50 words at this point, so it should be fun. We meet them today (!).
-realizing that I'm in a foreign country, don't speak the language, have no clue how to get anywhere, but I'm still insanely excited to be here. So I think I made the right choice! ;-)
That's it for now. Hopefully I'll be able to email people and do more blog updates again soon. For those of you who have my mailing address (let me know if you don't but want it), feel free to write me!
La Revedere!
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4 comments:
Glad you are safe and sound (so far)!
you are going to need to include translations of those salutations...is it just "hello" and "goodbye"? or it could mean "good morning" and "goodnight" or "i made it!" and "until next time." help us out a little, sawade.
do you know where you're placement is yet?
i got your letter today :) you made me homesick :-/
i HAVE eaten mayo on pizza. i'm so happy you and i have both lived now!! <3
Glad you like the food!!!
Now you've just got to try the wine for Bob & I... ;)
Love you.
Katie, so glad you made it safe!!
The next time Andy orders a pizza I think I'll sneak some mayo on it and see what he says...hehe :) Who knows, maybe if it's a hit Pontillos will feature a "Moldovian" special :)
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