I apologize to those that have been following this blog. I did not realize how far behind I have gotten. I guess that the slowness of up loading pictures with dial-up had kept me from thinking blog. In fact I am waiting right now as a picture is attempting to upload. But life has slowed down with summer at least for me. But as I write this the cow bells are sounding in the road in front of our house as the cows are followed home. We also have some sheep that have a sheep bell that pass by both in the morning and afternoon.
I have spent much of the summer so far working on my language skills. I had a tutor for a while but her grandmother has become ill and that is her first responsibility. She will be going back to school in Chisinau this fall so I will be in need of another tutor soon.
I have started working on the strategic planning ideas I have for my partner organization. This week my school director asked if I would start an English club after school in the fall. I have come to the conclusion that I am game to teach anyone English that wants to learn as it opens up a new place for people. I have been reviewing the material we have on teaching English. I hope to marry it with some kind of ecology/service activities.
Last weekend I broke down and bought a phone. I had resisted it all through training as I did not grow up with a cell phone in my hand but it is the main communication tool for PCV. Texting is how we communicate and it was lonely without access. I only got it home to discover it does not receive much here at the house and I have to climb one of the hills around our village to be able to send and receive messages. But it is helpful to keep tapped into the grapevine of PC gossip.
I am nearing the end of my first three months in site which here in Moldova means more freedom to travel around Moldova. I am not sure it will make a difference but we will have to wait and see. I have had good interaction with other volunteers as there are four in the city I travel to to shop and we have had others visit. But I spend most of my time here in my site where I am the only one that speaks English. That is until we have English club this fall.
The picture is of a bridge across the river/stream that runs down the middle of the valley this village occupies.
