So, I’m famous. There is a new post on the US-Armenian Embassy webpage about the swearing in ceremony, which you can read here. However, don’t miss the pictures at the bottom of the page. Sure enough – number one - myself and the US Ambassador shaking hands. Must be my new pointy Armenian shoes… I […]
Myself and another volunteer, Cheryl, put together a video for our going away party, with a lot of the pictures of our families and set it to music, along with some great video clips. I uploaded a compressed and subtitled version for everyone to download. It’s about 6mb, so it might be slow if you have […]
I am now writing from my new “office” at my NGO in Noyemberian. Training is finally over, and I have the illustrious certificate that officially makes me a Peace Corps volunteer: The last week in Bazum was actually pretty crazy. Between teaching our computer class, which went well dispite the language barrier, finishing training and […]
I’m officially a Peace Corps Volunteer. That’s a relief – now I can get to work and start saving the world, without the luxery of diversity lessons and “English” speakers. Oh well. I just wanted everyone to know that I made it to site safe, survived Yerevan (somehow – they have Jaeger there!) and that […]