They've been in country for a month, and this past week they found out where their permanent host families in their permanent communities are. It was a frenzied map filling in the smothering gym of our training site, full of excited and terrified squeals of anticipation. Given a community dossier and town name, each new trainee was led to a triangle of paper on the wood ground with the name of their town or village on it. There they stood until all the noobs were placed. The idea, here, and it's very effective, is to show relatively just how close or far away you are from your recently developed friends.
Usually, you're far apart. My favorite noob is a medieval jousting re-enactor named Ben. He, for example, is 5 hours south of me. But! conveniently close to another friend of mine. All downs have ups.
It's pretty fun. They even get free ice cream!
Not my town though, my town is too small to have a new kid. So I'm in Singerei, with Matt and Melissa and their new kid Yoel.
The plan, weather and host families permitting: picnic/hike with some traditional Moldovan BBQ and Singerei community developer ladies.
That's today.
I have one person near me in Balatina, her name is Shannon and lives 40 minutes east and 40 minutes north of me. She has a big smile and less than the usual fear of breaking off from the herd. I like her. Her aura is friendly. I hope to be meeting her every other weekend or so in our raion center (county capital) for tasty Moldovan pizza and tasty Moldovan beer.
Shannon, this weekend is out of reach, the site visit is too quick for me to get out there or for her to get into town. I'll get to meet her as a real real Volunteer in August or September. wee!
1 comment:
Wow, excellent posts. Thanks.
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