Archive for September, 2006
Sunday, September 24th, 2006
Address!
Here’s my mailing address, Walter Venable Peace Corps Moldova 12 Grigore Ureche St. Chisinau 2001 Republic of Moldova Mail me things! Candy bars…CDs…etc. Right now I’m in the capital visiting with Tania (my host sister), and Liza (another volunteer). I got a cellphone today! You can get the # from Heather (I don’t wanna post [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Pre-Service Training by weaseal
Thursday, September 21st, 2006
Comments
Dear all, please continue to leave comments. For some reason I have to “approve” them before they show up, which really sucks. I set the option for them togo through automatically, but they still don’t. Don’t know why, nor have the time to try to fix it. Oh well. Please continue to comment! Update: It [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Misc. by weaseal
Thursday, September 21st, 2006
So Tired!
I’m exhausted! the training is so intense. Not physically (aside from miles and miles of walking each day), but my brain is overloaded. Every day we learn new language structures, vocab…it’s impossible to take it all in. We even have class on Saturday, which is against the holy book of Walt. Oh well, for the best [...]
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
Moldova’d!
Hey all! I’m in Ialoveni right now. It’s a town outside the capital. We come here Mon and Thurs for training with the whole group 19 (about 36 people). As usual, my internet time is very short, so this post will be too. I hope everyone back home is good. I miss everyone so much, [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Pre-Service Training by weaseal
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Here We Go…
Again on our own. (Bad joke.) Ok, so we all leave in like an hour and a half. Bonus news? Heather is gonna meet me at JFK in NYC! One last goodbye. I hate sad goodbyes, but it’s good to see the love of my life one more time before we’re gone for a long-ass time. [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Pre-Departure by weaseal
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Philly!
I’m in Philly!!! It’s hard to be away from people, but so far it’s been a lot of fun. Gotta run!! I’ll be in touch. We leave tomorrow!!
2 Comments » - Posted in Pre-Departure by weaseal
Friday, September 8th, 2006
Fixed
I don’t know if anyone even noticed, but the site was having some problems being online for the past few days. I fixed the problem…there was a network cable that was sort of broken. Anyway, this should be up fully now. I leave the 10th for Philly, then on the 12th for Moldova.
No Comments » - Posted in Pre-Departure by weaseal
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
What a Weekend
I had an amazing 3-day-weekend. Not that I’m working right now, so a weekend isn’t all that special for me, but a lot of people were able to make it out on Saturday night, so it was pretty awesome. Geoff coming down from Boston was a big surprise that certainly made the weekend a lot [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Pre-Departure by weaseal
Friday, September 1st, 2006
Not Just Yet
Hey all. This is the first official post of my Moldova blog. No, I’m not there yet, but I wanted to make sure everything was working okay before I left. Cheers!
