Peace Corps Moldova!

Greetings friends, family and other people randomly reading. I am officially starting a blog to document my Peace Corps experience. For those of you who do not know, I left my job with Teach For America and am now focused on my impending departure to Moldova on June 8, 2008. For those of you who aren't familiar, Moldova is in Eastern Europe squished between Romania and Ukraine. I will be serving officially as a Primary Education volunteer. I have missed teaching this past year, so I am anxious to get back into it and be working with kids.

My official dates of service are June 2008 - August 2010, so it looks like I won't be back in the USA until the end of 2010 (which is weird to think about!) However, I will frequently update this blog so you can know exactly what is happening in my new Moldovan life. In the meantime, I've got plenty to do before June. At the end of April, I will be moving out of Seattle and driving down the Pacific Coast to see my family in California. I will then get on a plane, visit DC and NYC to say goodbye to close friends, followed by a Mexican cruise with my family and a final trip to Phoenix to say goodbye to my friends there. Then, I'm off to Philadelphia for Peace Corps staging, then to Moldova!