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Samuel Scheurich

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Hello all:

This past week has been eventful and entertaining for a few reasons. Last weekend, a friend and I went to another friend's village, where we ate dinner with the family and drank their homeade wine. The night ended with the two males in the group (me and another volunteer) going down into the basement to drink wine with the host-father, straight from the barrel. We also ate apples and homemade chunks of cheese. I have to say it was absolutely awesome in almost every respect (how many times a year do you eat chunks of goat cheese out of your hand, while drinking red-wine, underground?). To top-off the list of 'new' things to happen to us in that basement, the three of us got into a political discussion (not exactly 'political') about the differences between the Cricova winery and the Milesti Mici Winery. What made this discussion interesting was that it was conducted in Russian and Romanian - the volunteer with me is a Romanian speaker. After the host would give his part to the two of us, we would promptly start discussing with eachother, in an attempt to piece together what we understood. From what I gleaned, Milesti Mici has better wine, but Cricova is more like home...

On Saturday, there were 40 volunteers at the Peace Corps headquarters in Chisinau to eat thanks giving dinner. A few volunteers put on quite a spread, and I was extremely pleased to eat cranberry sauce out of the can. I personally made my famous scalloped potatoes and they weren't too bad.

I am back at site now - as you may have guessed- and I am looking forwward to my first English club taking place this Friday. Last time I attempted to organize a meeting, there was a mix-up because I thought no one was going to show up, but they did... Friday, I will be in the class room waiting. I would hate to come off as a flake to my dear little 10th graders.

In other news:

We have started the 25 day count-down until our plane lifts off to Turkey... The three of us are VERY excited and have gone through many different slogans for the trip - I may leave some out due to their questionable content - including, "Operation Gobble, Gobble" and "The Big Bird Debacle 2008/2009." All acts of heroism are encouraged on the trip, according to Mike D.

I have another cold. Great.

It is December 2nd today, and it is about 50 F. outside... I don't really understand but, I am also not complaining.

I lost my flash card and my bank card this weekend, because I am an idiot and I get to deal with getting a new debit card this week. Luckily, I purchased a 4 GB flashcard today for the equivalent of $15 today, which I am pretty happy about.

That's all for today; Пока!