Yes, I am still in a whirlwind, but I am embracing the crazy ride I’m on. I can already tell you that my 2011 is a wild, wild wave. I am currently doing a lot of looking in, doing a lot of personal writing. I can’t say how long the void of posts will last; [...]
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whirlwind trappings
Posted in books, creativity, culture, likes, music, projects, reading, television, usa, tagged alice laplante, best little bookshelf in texas, books, corpus librus, grey's anatomy, movies, noise trade, parks & recreation, rupaul's drag race, sleeping at last, television, thao & mirah, the making of a story on May 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
i knit: a brief history PLUS SOME MONSTERS!
Posted in friends, monsters, projects, tagged hobbies, knitting, monsters, personal, photography on December 10, 2010 | 7 Comments »
During one of those grade school summer trips to my grandparents house I encountered that yarn and needle thing people do. That town still hasn’t grown over a thousand and with not a lot to do, weeks at my grandparents included a lot of puzzles and John Wayne movies. I distinctly remember one of those [...]
privolnoye
Posted in armenia, autumn, children's club, cleaning, peace corps volunteers, projects, village, tagged armenia, autumn, culture, family, friends, life, living abroad, mushrooms, new friends, peace corps, people, projects, trash, trash clean up, travel, village, village life, village people, volunteering on October 11, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Another visit to a village. Another incredible time with an incredible family which feels like some kind of gift I do not deserve. But what to do but completely soak it in which, of course, is what I did. This time another PCV and I, plus a Latvian friend of mine from the European Volunteer [...]
doing some drifting
Posted in armenia, children's club, culture, hiking, nature, peace corps volunteers, projects, summer, village, tagged art, boats, booooooom, camp, creativity, cultural learning, culture, environmental art, environmental protection, little drifters, nature, peace corps, peace corps volunteers, photography, summer, travel photography, village life, world vision, youth, youth projects on September 2, 2010 | 43 Comments »
Some World Vision coworkers and I have been working on a Youth Leader Small Grants project, teaching Armenian village students about project design and management and, through a series of steps, awarding some of these village kids with small grants to do projects in their communities. In one small village, Yaghdan, the students applied for [...]
beerscum and line-dancing
Posted in armenia, dancing, hayeren, peace corps volunteers, projects, winter, tagged culture, dancing, games, hiv/aids on May 3, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Last week was spent mostly in a old blue Ford van with mismatched seats and a metal blue ceiling. It snowed for most of the week (yes, snow in APRIL… no, Texans don’t DO snow in April). The warmth inside the van caused streaks of condensation to end with tiny drips on our heads. I [...]
an omen, a full day, a creepy walk in the cemetary
Posted in armenia, home, projects, sanity, spring on March 4, 2010 | 7 Comments »
So many things to say about the things in the above picture. But before I do that, let’s set up the day: I saw fresh flowers. Fresh, I-just-picked-’em-and-plopped-’em-in-this-glass flowers. They sat on my friend’s desk in a tiny shot glass with some pink tulle packed behind them as their curling backdrop. Too, they sat on [...]
to teach about female condoms, to not teach about female condoms, and other questions
Posted in HIV/AIDS, projects, village on February 23, 2010 | 4 Comments »
In a couple of days I am finally starting my first real project. That’s a weighty statement when you consider that I’ve been here for nine months (!), that I live in Armenia and not my own sweet motherland, that I will be executing said project in a language I can barely speak. The Project: [...]
