Turkmenistan

Currently, this blog will be used for my thoughts, pictures, and excerpts from letters I send home from Turkmenistan. I will be in Turkmenistan from October 1, 2008 until December of 2010. You can send me letters and packages using the address to the right.
Many thanks to my family for posting updates to this blog as I will most likely have limited internet access over the next few years.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Updates....

I would like to apologize again for my terrible sporadic nature in updating this blog. So, since I was in NOLA I graduated from Hamline with a double major in German (with honors!) and Biology. And this summer I've been working at an afterschool summer school program in Burlington. It is a position that I accepted through AmeriCorps VISTA. A super awesome program that aims specifically at the very low income families in our country. I am responsible for organizing educational fun activities for a classroom full of kids who have just finished second or third grade. It is a joy to work with all of these students and many times rather frustrating.
I am actually finishing up my last week with the students and will finish my position as a VISTA in a week or so.
After that I will be looking for another job and hoping that one finds me.
And I recently was informed of my location for Peace Corps. I am headed off to Turkmenistan (a country north of Iran and Afghanistan) around September 28th. I will be there for two years and three months working as a Health Extensionist/Educator. I am really excited to begin and to truly following my heart and my passions around the world. I am also very nervous about leaving my family for such a long period of time. I know they are supportive of me (willingly or unwillingly) but it is still a challenge to leave those I love.
I will hope to keep this blog updated while overseas but have been told my internet access will be limited. So I shall see. I will for sure be sending updates home via my family and I'm sure they will dutifully post my updates. And that way everyone keeping a watchful eye on this blog will be able to travel with me emotionally! I wish you all well and I thank you in advance for the letters and positive thinking and emotional support!

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