Hi from Moldova and HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!
 Where we again are Peace Corps trainees for a month now and know about 100 words in Romanian.  I can buy food, buy clothes but can't remember the word for the busstop I need and have taken a trip out of the city and I forget verbs when asking questions... Of course I am in class 6 days a week 8 hours a day, with people who have much younger brains and I compare the little I know with all that the young brains know.   Comparison is the thief of JOY (Mark Twain) and I want to live in JOY. but I am slower. This is a beautiful place with gracious people trying there best to make their way. They all  grow large gardens to sustain themselves and want their children to have a better future. Same things I want. Well, maybe I want my kids to struggle a bit more, but basically we have the same goals...
I have 6 more weeks to stay in school because the goal for me is to teach health classes in September in Romanian. BIG GOAL. Tom is moving to our new home, on the river Nistreu, that is the border with the Ukraine in Cosauti, Moldova, at the end of the month.  We will live with a grandma (Bunica) daughter (momma gazda) and her daughter (Marianna) in a shared house. It is actually 2 houses one for the gramma and one for the mamma gazda. Since the mamma is divorced and the daughter is done with school next year they have combined quarters and we now have the bunica house. We have to share the kitchen in their house or we can pay and share meals.See how it goes after we move in.  We are to stay there 3 months as we learn more Romanian because NO ONE speaks English. So it is sink or swim.  I am paddling and may learn how to listen better...  I will send pictures as soon as I learn how to upload them onto my computer. Bye for now...Marcy in Moldova