The long awaited day has come. We know our Peace Corps assingment sites and what organization we will be working with for our time in Moldova. We gathered in the usual conference room of the Liceum (high school) where we have our training in Chisinau. Liliana Botnaru gave us an overview of how sites are solicited and selected by Peace Corps Moldova. Then we all went outside to the playground in front. Someone had chalked in a map of Moldova on the blacktop and the towns we are to serve in were marked. Now our country director, Jeffrey Goveia, called our names one by one and gave us our Peace Corps assingments. Each of us took our places on the giant Moldovan map. Current volunteers were there to help us find our towns and give us some personal information about the location and what it was like. I am assigned the town of Piatra in the raion of ORHEI. As you may recall from last Sunday, I was visiting in Orhei and saw the beautful area it is located in. I was very happy to find out my work will be in such a beautiful place. I will be working with an NGO (non governmental organization) called "Universal" This NGO tries to be a support for persons who live in soically vulnerable families and provide activities for them that keep them integrated in the community. It provides social services that address psycho-social needs. Sounds like something I like doing. We all left excited by our assingments and went to a local bar to look at our Moldovan maps and dream of what it will be like to visit our new sites this coming Sunday.
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