Travel with me for 27 months of service as a Peace Corps volunteer in Moldova!

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Friday, June 11, 2010

I'm living in MOLDOVA!!!

So far I have been in Moldova for 2 days and it has been a whirlwind adventure already.  We arrived in Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, yesterday evening after almost 30 hours of travel time from leaving the hotel in Philadelphia.  Since our arrival, we have been showered with information and hospitality.  We all have Peace Corps (PC) mentors from the group that arrived last year and they have been so helpful to make sure we have everything we need.  After a brief welcome orientation last night, today was our first day of Pre-Service Training (PST) which will last for 10 weeks.  In addition to many information sessions, we also had our first language class today and we found out the villages we will be moving to tomorrow evening when we meet our first host families.  Overall everything is going very well and I am excited to meet my host family and really start to learn the language (which I am happily finding is similar in many ways to Italian).   I am hoping to sleep well tonight and get past some of the jet-lag I was feeling today.  I am still figuring out the food here and trying to find good vegetarian/vegan options which is a little challenging but thanks to the free pepto bismol from the PC that is going better:)  The most different part so far of living here for me is that we can’t drink any of the tap water so we have to filter our water or drink bottled water so that is interesting.  I’m very excited to be going into a small rural village tomorrow and seeing more the the countryside.  This is a very beautiful country with rolling hills and lots of green.  Love you all and thank you for all the support.