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Less than a month

Time is ticking away now, less than a month before I leave for Armenia. That right, I know where I am going now: Armenia to do Environmental Education. I have some ideas about what that means, but still am not sure what exactly I'll be doing for the next 27 months. Other than trying to figure out how to speak Armenian....

perhaps I should answer the most frequently asked question: where, exactly, is Armenia? Well, it is bordered by Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Iran, and is located in that part of the world where nobody really knows what continent it belongs to. Central Asia, technically, although I am told it is more European or Mediterranean in culture. I guess time will tell. I am still trying to figure out how to post pictures and links, etc. I think I just added a map of Armenia to this site somewhere... Hopefully I'll have this smoothed out before I go.

Anyway, I'll add more later--promise. For now, bedtime.

Just Beginning

Well, I am just beginning to embark on my Peace Corps journey and I have a long time ahead of me before I actually get to go anywhere. I received my nomination this week: Environmental Education in central Asia. Thats all I know. Funny thing is, if you go to the Peace Corps website and look up the central Asian countries, none of them list Environment as one of the work areas. There are five or six Eastern European countries that do, but no central asian ones....hmmm.

Oh well, I decided tonight after spending all my waking hours scouring the internet for Peace Corps information, that it is time to let go and allow information to to trickle down to me in that slow bureacratic way. With that said, if you are reading this and happen to know anything about Environmental Education in Central Asia, or just happen to know of some good sites from central Asia volunteers in general please let me know!

I have been spending a lot of time reading articles and online journals from peacecorpsonline--some are really heartening and inspiring, others not so much. I am trying to not let the negative become discouraging or disillusioning, while at the same time realizing that negative things will happen eventually. I just have to remember to approach those times with the right attitude and frame of mind.

Well I guess thats about all I have to say right now. I just wanted to get this thing up and running, and even if nobody is reading it it helps to get some of this stuff off my chest. Posts will be infrequent for a while most likely, but hopefully more often and more entertaining as the time approaches.