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Where is Turkmenistan?: December 2008
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An Account of a Peace Corps Health Educator in Turkmenistan. Thursday, December 18, 2008. Persimmons and Dallas, Among Other Things. As we were leaving, a school trip of Turkmen children was entering; they were the only other visitors I saw. Part of the reason we got lost looking for the museum was that nobody we asked knew where it was, or that it even existed, in spite of its grandeur. In less than two weeks, nessip bolsa, I will be sworn in as an official volunteer. Very exciting. I went something lik...
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Where is Turkmenistan?: November 2008
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An Account of a Peace Corps Health Educator in Turkmenistan. Wednesday, November 12, 2008. Food, Toys and Family. Every day we have lunch at one of the host families’ houses. She gets paid to cook this meal and it is wonderful that they chose her, because she is an excellent cook! There is always relatively fresh bread (more on this comment later), fresh cucumbers, tomatoes - interestingly, the Turkmen word for tomato is pomidor –. The rice here is short-grain. Are the Central-Asian dumpling. I just keep...
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Where is Turkmenistan?: Trains, Planes and Automobiles
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An Account of a Peace Corps Health Educator in Turkmenistan. Tuesday, May 12, 2009. Trains, Planes and Automobiles. I decided that a corny movie reference (or song reference or something? Would be the perfect way to frame my week in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan’s capital, where I hadn’t been in five months. The pre-conference conversation about project and service related concerns (do you have a project idea? Will this conference be a waste of time? Our conversation is also interrupted by the people selling sh...
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Where is Turkmenistan?: Women’s Day
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An Account of a Peace Corps Health Educator in Turkmenistan. Monday, March 16, 2009. We set our blankets in the sand with twelve other relatives near a brown and murky path of water. First came the palow and salads, then cake. The older men and women offered their vodka toasts. I assumed with the cake we were finished, but then we lit a camp fire, chatting and nobody in a hurry to go anywhere. How this blog works. Merkezi poçta, Ab# 46. THIS IS THE END. A Small Party and a Big One. Why I havent posted.
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Where is Turkmenistan?: May 2009
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An Account of a Peace Corps Health Educator in Turkmenistan. Tuesday, May 12, 2009. Trains, Planes and Automobiles. I decided that a corny movie reference (or song reference or something? Would be the perfect way to frame my week in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan’s capital, where I hadn’t been in five months. The pre-conference conversation about project and service related concerns (do you have a project idea? Will this conference be a waste of time? Our conversation is also interrupted by the people selling sh...
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Where is Turkmenistan?: January 2009
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An Account of a Peace Corps Health Educator in Turkmenistan. Wednesday, January 7, 2009. Work and Play: Part I II: New Year's Eve. Don’t you like Turkmen food? Why don’t you eat? Isn’t it delicious? 8221; my host repeated. On every street, the children throw firecrackers called “Pankledaks” that explode with load cracks. With each crack my belly lurched. Work and Play: Part I I: New Year's. Work and Play: Part I: Play. Work and Play: Part I: Work. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). How this blog works.
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Where is Turkmenistan?: September 2008
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An Account of a Peace Corps Health Educator in Turkmenistan. Sunday, September 28, 2008. A few notes before I go. Tomorrow, I get on a plain for Turkey, and by Wednesday at 2:45 am, I will be in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. The great adventures begin. Here are a few fun things I think may be of interest about Turkmenistan:. There are no other major development organizations in the country. Peace Corps is truly unique there. What an incredible privilege to get to be there. I will send more when I know more.
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Where is Turkmenistan?: Ahhh!
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An Account of a Peace Corps Health Educator in Turkmenistan. Monday, March 9, 2009. MS words doesn't work on this computer, so once again, my beautifully-pretyped posts will be left to languish. And I can't seem to open the files in Google Reader either. Maybe it will happen next week. The contents of this website are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. government or the Peace Corps. How this blog works. Merkezi poçta, Ab# 46. THIS IS THE END. A Small Party and a Big One.
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Where is Turkmenistan?: October 2008
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An Account of a Peace Corps Health Educator in Turkmenistan. Monday, October 27, 2008. Meeting the Host Family. October 4, 2008. I have just met the host family and things seem OK although I still have virtually no language so I can’t be entirely sure of that. The family lives in the village of Herrick-Gala, 14 miles southwest of Ashgabat. The mother is 55 and the father is 54. They have two sons, 30 and 24. I haven’t met them yet, as I only arrived half an hour ago. Usually, there is no furniture, only ...