The Training Begins!

Hey Everyone,
Sorry for not posting sooner, but I wanted to let you know I'm here in moldova safe and sound - just really busy with the next 2 months of training. We arrived last weds (all 40 of us from the states) after an 8 hour layover in Germany and spent 3 days in the capital, Chisinau. I found out the first night that I'll be learning Russian instead of Romanian. After only 2 language lessons, we met our host families last saturday and went with them to our site for the next 2 months. I'm in the town of Orhei (and in the internet cafe now) which is a small city situated on the outskirts of a forest, 30 mins from Chisinau (really pretty -- i'll post pictures soon!). My family consists of a host mom, her 17yr old niece, and an adorable 5 yr old boy. He only speaks Romanian and is adament that I speak it with him (when he's not trying to distract me from my homework :)

There are 2 volunteers living in Orhei, since we're the only ones learning Russian, so everyday I walk about 5 mins through my neighborhood to the house where my teacher's living for class. My schedule for training is language class 5 days a week from 8:30 am-1pm, technical and health training in another town with all of the volunteers 3 days a week, and different activities and trips the rest of the time.

I have a cell phone here! I'll email my number out, so look for it.
Miss you all and I'll surely post pics soon so you can get more of sense of my life here.
Neha :)

Hello! This is going to be my handy dandy way of communicating while in the Peace Corps. I'll try to post details and pictures of all of my escapades as much as possible.

My mailing address for the first 2 months of Pre-service training:
Neha Raval, PCT
Corpul Pacii
Str. Grigore Ureche 12
2001 Chisinau
Republica Moldova

I am leaving Sunday morning for Orientation in washington d.c. and flying to Moldova on Tuesday, with a layover in Frankfurt Germany. So, armed with 122lbs of luggage (only the essentials...right), I'm off.