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I was always an avid reader before, but it’s as though I had a “turbo” switch that was turned on when I moved here. I read, on average, a book a week. Also every week, the PC office sends all of us volunteers a Newsweek. But, giving a PCV one magazine a week is like giving a pro football player a piece of bread for dinner. It doesn’t last long, ( Read more... )

Tuesday morning at 8:00 AM, I walk into my seventh grade class ready to talk about Civil Rights and MLK. I have vocabulary words to teach, a cross-word puzzle to do and I even brushed up on my history in case the students had any questions. I write the vocab words on the board and start to explain them. “Segregation” is one of the words. I get ( Read more... )

Hey all, sorry for the long delay in updating. Things have been really busy here in Zalau. I went to a Halloween party, celebrated Thanksgiving, hosted a Special Olympics event, moved apartments and got a new roommate. Things have just been moving at lightening speed, and before I knew it, it was December first.

About a week ago I went to a party ( Read more... )

It's about Nina, the daughter of my aunts friend, she is in the US right now as an Au Pair but had real trouble with her family. Because of all the psyche stress and everything she lost a lot of weight and was just not doing well at all in that family. Now she is looking for a new family, who is either looking for an Au Pair or could just help her ( Read more... )

Something happened to me today that is just too surreal not to share ( Read more... )

I love fall in Romania. The leaves change color, the air turns colder (hey, I’m from Michigan; I love the cold!), but most importantly, autumn means harvest festivals! I really love harvest festivals. Each farming community has their own, and they are spread all throughout the end of August, all of September and the beginning of October ( Read more... )

I have been in Romania now for about 1 year and 3 months, or about 63 weeks, or 442 days now (wow, that was some quick mental math!). For all but the first ten of those weeks I had the awesome chance to have wonderful sitemates, Allan and Autumn Henderson ( Read more... )

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So, I know I've been not-posting for a REALLY long time now. It's not that I have nothing to say, it's just that I don't know how to express myself to people back home. So, in short: life is good. School ended in June, the next week I worked a Prader Willi conference in Cluj; two days later my parents came to visit and we went to Turkey, where ( Read more... )