Peace Corps - About to Begin

hey gang!

well, it's early, early in the morning and i've still
got stuff to do. this last week or so has been
extremely hectic getting everything in order. and my
adventure is beginning a little bit roughly. i snuck
in a camping trip with some work buddies and came home
today, my last full day at home, with a big list of
things to do. the first thing on my list was to sell
my car to a friend at work. but as luck would have it,
when i got back from enjoying the forest - i found
that someone had stolen my car. nothing really
significant in the car except for my checkbook. oops.
so i spent the better part of the day filling out
police reports and closing accounts. fun, fun.

although it bummed me out quite a bit, tomorrow i'll
probably remember none of it as i'm stepping on to the
plane headed for a great journey.

i'm starting out in washington d.c., where i'll be
going through an orientation for a couple days.
sunday, a bunch of other hippie volunteers and myself
will fly to sofia, the capital of bulgaria for another
orientation. we're there till friday, at which point
we get bussed to the the southern town of pazardjik.
this is where i'll be doing my 3 months of "training"
but the training is mostly just the language course.
in bulgaria they speak bulgarian, in case you were
wondering. i've already kinda learned the cyrillic
alphabet - it's a start.

at the end of the training (october 28th) there's a
swearing in ceremony and site announcement. this is
when i'll learn which city i'll be doing my service in
for the following 2 years.

then, the environmental education begins! don't quite
know exactly what i'll be doing yet, but they've told
me that i'll be working with municipal governments,
small businesses, schools, and the local community.
should be great fun! but they're making me dress
business casual... that's a much smaller hurdle than
figuring out what to do about a stolen car in one day!
ha!

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peace out all - i'll write when i can.

andy