One year!

Sorry to anyone that has been trying to follow this blog. But I have made a couple of landmark dates and I want to note them here. First off it was a couple of months ago that I passed my first year in country and this week coming I will celebrate my first full year in site.

Just as other volunteers report having that first year under your belt changes your whole life. I am not sure why but life is getting busier. While I am still in conversation with my partner over a project we might do some day, I have almost completed one year of after school English clubs with about twenty some kids. But just recently I have been helping out other volunteers and their partners with strategic planning. In fact last week we did two days of strategic planning in three languages, Russian, Moldovan and English. There was lots of good conversation in the mix. It is called going with the flow.

One thing that happens at the mid service mark are medical check ups. I have passed all of mine with flying colors. In the next couple of months we will loose a TEFL and Health teacher group as they complete their service but we will be getting in new volunteers for all our programs. But that will make my training group the second most senior, we are not the babies any more, we are the experience.

Spring has come and the garden is in. It stays light much later now and that means I can take a later bus home from the capital and walk the last hour in light. Today is the first day of the last month of school and it is a holiday, labor day. We are all getting ready for the summer but what will we do?

Sorry there is no picture with this blog but I am going it on dial-up and I am not sure how long it would take to upload a picture but longer then I am willing to wait.