Wed 13 Dec 2006
Absurdly Outrageous and Moderately Infomative
Posted by Alan P. under Peace Corps Romania , My TravelsThat is how I would explain my last week and a half. I’ve been in the city of Sibiu for an In-Service Training conference for the volunteers in my group. We have three conferences spread over our service to get together and talk about our projects and learn hold sessions on information we would need at that time. So basically 68 americans get together in a big city and party for a week. We had some language training and some sessions on grant writing and funding options… sounds fun, right? Well we also had four birthday parties and a christmas party. Got to watch the grinch and charlie brown’s christmas, as well as had a tacky christmas sweater contest and white elephant gift exchange. All in all, it was great to see everybody and I learned a lot. (when I say “learn”, I mean “dance”)
check out photos from IST by clicking the picture above

December 20th, 2006 at 5:16 am
We had a gift exchange at work today… it was a new one and fun. We picked names and had to bring a gift that was the same as the person’s initials that we picked. I picked our office minister, Alida Decoster. I brought in Bill Clinton’s “My Life”…. an Arkansas Diary! It took them a while to figure that one out. Miss you and thanks for calling… it was really good to hear your voice. Now email me your # and address.