Documenting the life and times of a PCV in T-stan. My latest fortune cookie said, "Remember always that you are just a visitor here, a traveler passing through." That pretty much sums up my life.
During training (ie my first 3 months in country) this will be my address. Letters are better than e-mail for keeping in touch with me while I am in Turkmenistan so please please please write to me! Write "Airmail/Par Avion" and "via Istanbul" along with the address (in English and Turkmen). Tape packages with red, white, and blue tape (looks official and minimizes tampering) and number letters as well as packages so I know if any are missing.
US Peace Corps/Turkmenistan P.O. Box 258, Krugozor Central Post Office Ashgabat, 744000 Kathleen Yaworsky TURKMENISTAN
Türkmenistan Aşgabat, 744000 Merkezi poçta abonent 258, Krugozor Parahatçylyk Korpusy, Türkmenistan Kathleen Yaworsky TÜRKMENISTAN
I'm a recent Bowdoin grad from Upstate New York. Now Peace Corps is sending me back to the motherland. My great-grandmother emigrated to the United States from Ukraine in 1905. I don't know a thing about the "old" country, except that I like some tasty foods my grandmother used to make (that I can't even spell) involving cabbage. The first phrase we learn in Ukrainian/Russian is "I am not a spy." Next on my list is, "Are we related? Because if so, this can't continue."
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