street, I stopped home.
Mind you, I had no mail
when I left and hadn’t
gotten any for two and
a half weeks. So I was
definitely not expecting
the surprise. I grabbed
the mail out of the slat
that it was hanging
out of, and there were
four Peace Corps
envelopes! Apparently,
that is enough to merit
a delivery. Needless
to say I was excited to
Rachel and students on a boat at Lake Dorian
read my “All Vol Memos”
lesson I learned that day as from
and Newsweeks. Much to my
the tortoise and the hare. A
surprise the Pauza was in there,
good lesson for a Peace Corps
and I waited to read it until later.
volunteer: waiting to see what
I returned home rather late and
the community wants and feels is
thought that I would just leaf
better. It seems to me that if I had
through it for further perusal
adult English classes from sunrise
later. Or so I thought! I was
to sunset that Delchevo would
hooked! I read every word and
be ecstatic... good thing that I am
was laughing the whole time! I
starting another one this Friday.
have wondered the same things
Recently Dave and I went Na
about KOMANDANT KOKI and
Gosti to our neighbor’s and
about green pumpkins. I saw my
watched last year’s Eurovision
picture on the front cover and
contest on DVD. It was
remembered that I had bronchitis
interesting. I felt honored that I
and a cold on Swearing In Day
was privileged enough to come
and that the plans that I had made
from a country that taught me
with my counterpart had fallen
English so that I was able to
through so I was stuck in Veles
understand the Finnish, Russian
a day early with all my luggage
and many other singers that sang
and no place in the car to travel
in English. I ended up translating
the three hours to my site (thanks
the concepts to my widowed
to those of you who saved me
neighbor and her 11-year-old
that day, I will never forget the
son. I had been in the middle of
desperation I felt!). Fortunately
making dinner (spinach pie from
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