on the job: Emi & Mada
The blog’s been quiet on the work updates, I know. It’s not that we haven’t been working; we’ve just been in the groove which I guess is to be expected in year 2 of service. Tonight we met with Emi and Mada — we’re doing adjective opposites. Emi’s a studier and an aural learner. Mada’s […]
in the community: our saturday walk
With the beautiful weather, we’ve been heading outside more often. This past Saturday, we meandered around town. Here are a few pictures from our wanderings. A local cemetery where we head for some quiet and shade. A guy, a bike, and a goat. Our main man, Stefan cel Mare (a statue in an overgrown park) […]
on the road: recap of Pisa, Italy
We started our Italian adventure in the city of Pisa. And it’s a fabulous sleepy city. Practically speaking it has cheap airline tickets to get there (woot Wizz Air!), an airport close to town, everyplace is within walking distance. From a visitor’s perspective, while it has its touristy hotspot, there are small streets to meander […]
on the road: Easter in Italy
Two weeks ago, we left for our “Easter in Italy” adventure. We got back to our Romanian apartment yesterday – freckly, tired, vacation-ed out, and in love with Italy. It was great — a great country, great weather, great travelling companions, great events, great food, great, great, great. Slowly but surely, I’ll be pulling pictures […]
in the community: caruta
One of my favorite Romanian “things” is the caruta — a horse-drawn cart that’s pretty ubiquitous in more rural areas. Every Monday morning I awake to the clip-clops of carutas coming through town for the weekly market. It’s one of those sounds that I’ve gotten used to and yet still cherish. When my mom came […]
on the road: headed to Italy
We’re headed to Italy later this week and I’m super excited for: Walking the Cinque Terre photo courtesy of wanderlustjourney.com Eating copious amount of gelato photo courtesy of sadaqah Going to Easter Vigil Mass with David (it’s the anniversary of his baptism and the POPE will be there!!) photo courtesy of Bradley N Weber Seeing […]
quick tidbit
We’ve moved from http://daveronica.wordpress.com to http://www.daveronica.com. Meaning that if you type in daveronica.wordpress.com to visit our blog, you’ll need to update your bookmarks. If you usually just type in daveronica.com, you needn’t change anything you’re doing. Due to some new stuff over at the free wordpress site, we’ve opted to graduate to the big leagues […]
in the news: Aiken Standard gives us a shout-out
http://www.aikenstandard.com/2011local/0302-Peace-Corps-couple David and I were interviewed last week by Rob Novit, a reporter for my hometown’s newspaper, the Aiken Standard. With March 1 marking Peace Corps’ 50th Anniversary, an article seemed timely. It’s a nice article and I don’t think we did a bad job in representing the Peace Corps or ourselves. Plus it is […]
keeping traditions: a trifecta
March 1, 2011 was a trifecta as David wrote on Facebook. 1) It was M?r?i?or, the “spring’s almost here” holiday. (Here’s my post about it from last year.) Claudia told us that it’s also Ziua Barbatilor (Men’s Day). David got coffee and ties and tons of martisoare. I got a few martisoare myself, but this […]
on the job: Radu update
Perhaps you remember Radu. All winter long, Radu has been making caciula-s (winter hats) and fular-s (winter scarves) like mad. Thanks to a big big package from home, there are plenty of looms to go around, now. He and Mariana have made enough that the center is selling them on consignment at various stores in […]
