Peace Corps Volunteer Party Time

Peace Corps Volunteers Party better than you! Party PCV’s face south Party PCV’s face east Party PCV’s face north Party PCV’s face west When we first arrived, we were 44 people who were all strangers. As Americans, this stage couldn’t last long, so we started to party together to find…

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Don’t Miss the trolleybus

The only way to cruze in Russia: the trolleybus! It costs two rubles, and goes all over the city. It doesn’t pollute and no one argues with it. What could it be? A trolleybus, that’s what! Moscow, and most Russian cities, are crisscrossed by trolleybus lines, buses that are powered…

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I Go Far for Nike’s in Moscow

What I do for a new pair of shoes Last week, as I felt the pebbles on the street through my old Nikes I deiced it was time to buy a new pair. Yes, I know I should have bought a pair of shoes before I left, but I didn’t…

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Diana Will be a Yale Freshman

Diana rocks the Ryazan Educational Advising Center Me, Diana, & Vlad, chillin’ In Ryazan I was assigned to run a Educational Advising Center for the students of the local universities. Actually saying I was to run it is an overstatement. Diana runs the office, I was just to get the…

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Wanna Learn English? Ask Heather

Heather knows the way to conjugate a verb Heather always kisses the air Strangely enough there are Peace Corps Volunteers here in Moscow, and Heather is one of them. She and I have argued about the role of PCV’s in the capital of such a country, and until both doors…

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