Daily

Zi Buna! Good Day!

Hopefully in the next year or so I will be greeting you all in Russian as well! I am settling in very quickly here, and as I approach week four at site I am starting to establish a routine.

I head into the office around ten in the morning, after waking up to have breakfast at around eight in the morning. After breakfast I normally refresh my cup of tea, and take in the day’s news on the BBC. After the news, I sign online quickly to download whatever emails I have from the previous day. I then put on my work clothes, normally some sort of combination of a collard shirt and a sweater. I find if I mix them enough ways it looks like I have more clothes than I actually brought with me.

My counterpart normally ditches me within the first hour or so of the day, and thus I sit and study Romanian. The plan is I stay at work until around one PM, but normally I head out after two hours around noon. I fill my afternoons up with lunch, and them maybe a visit to the local school or the mayors office. I actually think I am going to be starting to work with the Mayor on a project soon, I have a meeting with him early next week.

The weekends are brutal here though. In fact, they are so brutal for volunteers a random German Volunteer from a different organization found out I was near by and tracked me down. We met over the weekend, and it was great have a volunteer perspective outside of the Peace Corps.

Beyond that, not much is new, if you want a laugh, my monthly allowance is less than I would sometimes spend in one night at Tampa (although it may turn out to be enough!), but on the flip side my host father informed me we are having a Russian Banya room installed soon, hopefully the influx in cash I am paying will help that along!

Pe Curînd! See you soon!

drew