Just after visiting my first commemoration of the dead ceremony at the local Romanian Orthodox biserica, the bunica, who literally lives, works, eats and sleeps in her bucataria, gave me a plate of homemade goodness, a lovely bunch of garden...
Here are the sweets before the party this March 1st which I made for my Romanian and Hungarian colleagues to share with me and commemorate the miliestone of Peace Corps birthday. Twenty of them came and helped me decorate, too. We also had...
My counterpart married in February 2008. After the civil ceremony in town hall, the procession moved to the Orthodox church - unheated in the chilly Transylvanian winter. Then came a 200-person party that lasted until sunrise.
In August 2007, a group of Peace Corps Volunteers across Romania converged on Sovata, Ro., in Transylvania for a week-long journalism camp. Here Volunteer Matt Zdon helps students prepare articles for the camp newspaper.
In April 2008, the Balan Peace Corps Volunteers organized a giant cheerleading session for English Friendship Club. The 30 middle schoolers had matching T-Shirts with the club logo, a gift from our families in America, and we made pompoms to...