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Wedding Pics
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Mike&Bobbie's Engagement Pics
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Washington DC
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Closer to Home
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Nothin' like a Moldovan good-bye meal at the office!
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The office threw us a good-bye party. It was really sweet of them! We had a great time.
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Awww, they got the interns presents!!! We were pretty stinkin' happy.
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We were asked "how do you feel about going home" and this is how we answered.
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Really Jess, why did you have to get on that really sketchy bus and leave me like you did???? Please come back and make that face again.
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Everyone looks so happy. Wow.
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Scramble face at work...the rest of the office thought it was a bad idea, when in fact the lack of scramble face at work is a bad idea.
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Jess and Mer went outside to take pictures of their apartment. Once they were out there they yelled up to the third floor, "BE A BA-BA". Thus, this is my impression of a Moldovan Grandma.
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Genia's first time to McDonalds! Woot.
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Everyone in McDonalds thought I had gone crazy. They just don't understand that R2D2 and I are friends.
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Rockin' the McDonald's scene.
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Here are two reasons why I like Moldova.
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Jay and Silent Bob and PB&J unite.
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I feel like this is a good depiction of your greatness as a couple. Thus, it is shutterfly worthy.
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So I bought this hat from a lady on the street that had knitted it herself. She told me I looked good in it, and I bought it. It's pretty much my favorite now. (I really need to get over my weird hat obsession.)
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That's about right.
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Morgan got overcharged and was arguing with the waitress in Romanian. I think this picture captures the moment pretty well.
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I took a 14 hour train ride from Zap-town to Odessa while trying to get back to Moldova. The train cost me $12, and I slept the entire time except for 3 hours of the ride. You should also know, that this pictures makes it look better than it really was. Woot, Eastern European sleeper cars.
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Beding for the train
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I arrived back in Moldova with a huge smile on my face. This is my roomy for the time being...which is kind of a big commitment considering I'm not the cleanest roommate in the world.
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My weirdness also came back once I got into the presence of my friend Jess. It feels good to be weird again...espeically around you, Jess.
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One of the "normal" Jess-Bobbie pics from the 6 month stash I have.
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Marion came to see me! Love her.
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I hope you're laughing as loud as I am while you're looking at this picture.
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Jess and Mer met some people from Sweden that I got to hang out with on Saturday. This is Katya. She's a stud.
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This booth was our retreat place away from everyone else. Basically, I steal Jess from the world sometimes.
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We started a game of darts. Mer and I were on a team. She got a bulls-eye the first throw. STUD. Pretty sure we still lost though. That might tell you how great of a partner I am.
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Dart-Master-J at her finest.
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Mer and I fit in with the Sweds pretty well...maybe because we are Swedish. This is her and Hannah.
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A few reasons why I love Jess...
1) Awkward Noises
2) Great facials
3) Cuddling
4) Taking crazy pictures that integrate all the previously stated reasons.
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It's about time we're all together again! HOPE Interns reunite for a weekend of greatness. Man, I missed you girls. XOXO
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Mer got invited to go play bowling. I tagged along for an AWESOME Sunday.
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I finally got to meet Nina. She had a free pass to go bowling in Mall-Dova. Yes, the only Mall in Moldova, and that really is it's name. It was only her 4th time bowling so she thought I was really good. I didn't break 100 though.
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Scramble face went a little south
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Nina, me, Evelina
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So you rent the lane per hour. We had it for one hour. It was the 10th frame, and I was the last to bowl. It shut off right before I got to bowl. I was a little upset. So Nina and I just bowled anyway even though they shut off power to the lane.
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Best friends
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I was supposed to see Evelina at a Moldovan wedding before Sunday night...Mer and I might have overslept though. Everything is good now. I got to see her beautiful face!
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We had way too much fun.
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Mer thinks she won...but I'm pretty sure I would have beat her if I would've gotten to bowl the 10th frame. Right, Mer?? ;)
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I think this picture is funny because of our huge Moldovan purses.
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Mall-Dova was having their 1-year celebration. This included karaoke, "famous" singers, free wine, and even a few dancers that you will later be a little sicked-out by. P.S. I didn't actually sing Karaoke. Moldova couldn't handle that.
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We went down to the celebration on the 1st floor and there were these awesome...well, whatever they are. I told Mer that I needed a picture.
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How creepy is it that you can see his eyes?!?!?!? Weirds me out.
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Maybe this is why I feel fat in Moldova.
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Dancers in the MALL...a mall! Did you notice the huge wine barrels? I got a little confused. I thought I was in a mall, not a strip joint. Maybe it's because my town doesn't have a mall, but I didn't know these kinds of things happened while families were shopping.
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This lady is famous...something about Horrah and Moldova. She sang on Eurovision - kind of a big deal.
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I was trying to chase this girl around all night in the mall because I wanted to show everyone the crazy hats people wear here. I know people at home wouldn't believe me. She got away from me about 3 times before we ran into her again. Finally a success.
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So Nina and I yelled at this really great electric violinist to take a picture with us. Literally yelling "CUTE VIOLIN BOY TAKE A PICTURE WITH US" in English with a bunch of Moldovans around us. I think everyone thought we were crazy or had too much of the free wine. Neither of which was true. We finally got his attention and he wouldn't take a picture with us. We were pretty mad, but we did get one with the sax player.
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This is some famous Moldovan singer. I might have told him that we came all the way from the US to see his performance. Might of lied, but he took a picture with us after I said it. I think it all worked out.
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The Dancers exiting the stage. Did I mention there were little kids right up front watching??? It hurt my heart.
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Back at Invest Credit with the girls!
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That's about right, Jess.
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Mer being her moldovan self. :)
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Moldova goodness!
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"oh....thhhhat girl"
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Lunch break should always be like this.
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Everyone's a little obsessed with sour cream here...just thought I'd jump on the bandwagon.
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Aww, they're cute.
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I wanted to capture a good mashrutka moment.
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Jess and I went on a date...to China. Germany just wasn't good enough for us. Their tables were way too large.
Note: we ate Mexican food in China.
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You know you're in Moldova when....
Paris
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Paris, Prague, Kiev (AKA leftover pics)
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1) Kiev...round two
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St. Michael's monastary
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When I went into this church there was a choir of monks chanting behind the alter. It was absolutely beautiful.
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Rumor on the street, is that this guy baptized the entire city of Kiev in the nearby river.
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I had a day before Jess met me in Kiev and saw this bridge from an overlook. Right then I decided that I was going to walk across it, so I just started walking toward it. I had an awesome walk across and ended up taking a nap on the sandbar.
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I was looking for the Botanical Gardens and came across the park where all the guys meet to play chess.
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"Bob and Jess in Kiev"
Haha - I love you, Jess.
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Independence Square
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One of my favorite parts of the trip was climbing St. Sophia's tower that over looked the monasteries...and I might have left my ticket to get into the church at the top. Leave it to me to leave something at the top of a huge tower.
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St. Sophia's from the tower.
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This lady wanted me to take a picture of her feeding the birds. Then I got my chance to do the same. I screamed when they started eatting out of my hands. I couldn't help it, they have grippie little feet and were pecking at me. You would do the same. Jess was freaked out the whole time considering she hates birds.
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I think this was one of the moments Jess and I were deep into conversation and loving every second of our lives. Now that I think about it, when weren't we wrapped up in a good conversation?
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Sitting listening to a street band playing the Beatles. After about an hour we couldn't take it anymore and so we got up in danced/twisted in the middle of the park. Highlight moment. Perfection, if I do say so myself.
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So the night before this, we met these two really awesome guys that took us out. One was from Russia and the other from Isreal. Then the next morning we all went on a boat ride with the hostel owner!!! It was a really great time.
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Man, I love this girl.
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Yay for being on a boat with new friends from faraway places.
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On the weekends, Kiev shuts off traffic on their main road. This is their famous street. Jess and I might have eaten at TGI Fridays that night.
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Holy moment.
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We took a walk across the bridge and sat and talked in the park.
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Culture at its finest.
I need a life.
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The average life expectancy of a male in the Ukraine is 62. It either has to do something with the mass amounts of vodka they consume or the mass amounts of pollution in the air. I'm hoping my life expectancy isn't depreciating while I'm here. Bah.
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The other day I decided to take a walk across the very large dam that goes across the Dnieper River. Little did I know that where I was walking definitely wasn't designed for pedestrians. Once I got to the point I couldn't go back, I realized the walking along the 1 foot wide space between the busy road and the dam itself wasn't the best decision I had ever made. The good news is that I made it across and walked on the right side on the way back. During this scary adventure, I took this picture. Obviously it was a really beautiful view.
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I have a deep love for public transportation now. On an average day I will take 3 van rides and 2 trolly bus rides (as seen in the pictures).
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Yep, I was definitely on the wrong side of the road during this walk.
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On my way back, I met a friend. Don't get too excited...it was a dog. A really dirty, lonely dog that thought I would feed him. He followed me quite a ways before he realized we weren't really friends at all. Poor thing. Thus, he was left on the side of the road. (Aleigh, if you're reading this you should come get him.)
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The statue says "Lenin". To give you an idea of how big these statues of Soviet leaders are you should look at the child playing at the base. I mean really, why wouldn't you want you children playing at Lenin's feet?
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While I was doing some accounting homework at the beach, I saw this cute little girl with her grandma. My favorite part of this picture is the grandma carrying her little shoes. It makes me smile.
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Blue and green are the two colors most prevelent here. You can see them on most of the houses and usually the gates. I've been told they symbolize spiritual meanings of heaven and earth. (Thank you, wordless-book.)
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I loved the colors so much I had to capture it, and there's something about overgrown flowers that's starting to get to me.
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I wish you could have seen me actually taking this picture. Let's just say that the base of that ladder is about 3 feet off the ground.
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One might think this is in a village...that he would be wrong. This is definitely right outside an apartment complex.
A Ukrainian "recycling center"
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That's a LOT of hard liquor that was consumed right there.
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Beer = $.50
Water = $.75
Beer is obviously the "wiser" choice when you don't have much money to spend.
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These people were nice enough to let me take pictures of their business. They thought I was some professional photographer from the States. I didn't really care who they thought I was as long as I could take pictures.
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The human hamster wheels make me laugh.
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If I ever find three other people to come to the park with we're gonna race down these slides. That will be a great day.
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The overalls are my favorite! (I want to make a shout out to Lisa B. here.)
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I was walking home and I heard someone in the window. I looked up and there is this small child trying to climb up these bars outside her window. I got out my camera as fast as I could and started taking all these pictures. Before too long, she started pointing at me and saying "mama". I quickly turned to run before her mom found out I was taking advantage of this photo opt.
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Up-town Zap-Town
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That, my friends, is a can opener that I obviously didn't know how to use. Who makes can openers like that anyway? Where's the big knob you turn?
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Yeah...who knew a can opener could be such a dilemma in my life?
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The clothes market in Zap.
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Yep...they only sell clothes here. Just imagine how big the entire market is!
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I definitely was a little hesitant to eat the watermelon off that plate after she touched all the pieces. But she is the cutest little fly-infested Ukrainian child I've ever seen so I didn't hold it against her.
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She is SO cute. I want one just like her.
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This is the birthday sign that my co-workers put up for me. It made my day, and I might have cried a little. It was so nice. They also sang happy birthday to me in English AND Russian. Bam!
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Last night was just one of those time I felt like I needed a good night-walk. I took one and then later realized that it probably wasn't the safest choice to be alone at night with my camera waving around while I took pictures...but what can you do.
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I hear that you shouldn't go here at night...something about drugs and stuff. But it was pretty and everything seemed fine :).
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This is the store right by my apartment. I felt like it was glowing last night so I took a pic.
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Ukraine's Independence Day!
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There are fountains EVERYWHERE here.
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This is after Katya and I played the cup-game in the middle of a Ukrainian pizza place. Everyone looked at us like we were crazy, because Ukrainians don't really do things like that in public. Not to mention my loud laughter is really out of place here. But we just kept laughing and that's why Katya is so cool!
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More fountains
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If you're over 12 people don't care if you get drunk in public. This picture has Ukrainian culture written all over it.
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It was a good day :).
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Katya took like 5 funny-face pictures, this is about as normal as it gets.
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My best friend right now...Katya! Seriously, I barely notice that she's 12. She's so great. :)
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Here are some things worth pointing out:
1) The pillows behind the blue one are from the couch in the other room.
2) All the little stands are actually my kitchen "chairs".
3) I found this huge piece of glass in a closet so I put it in my room and taped pictures to it.
4) The outlets are different than Moldova. So I have one converter for European voltage and then another one so it fits in the hole. By the time I actually plug it in it's too heavy to actually stay plugged in. Bah!
5) Yes I have, what looks like, a "sweet" patio thing. In fact, it's really scary and I think that I'm gonna fall through the floor if I walk out there.
6) The Curtains. (Enough said)
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I spent most of my week in that chair.
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I think my front door might be bullet proof.
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I haven't decided if I can flush the toliet paper or not. I need to work on this small detail.
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The hole in my bathtub is my favorite part of the house. Or maybe it's the smell of mold when I turn on the water. Or manybe it's the "washing machine" that I have to empty into the tub. Okay, it's all pretty great...let's just be honest about it.
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The mirror is plastic.
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We put bubble wrap around the tub so that the pipes don't leak into the apartment downstairs. Aren't you a little jealous that I get to shower in that?
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I was told that the storage under the window can also double as a freezer in the winter. Either that's the collest storage ever...or I'm gonna freeze when it gets cold outside. Let me also show you my kitchen table and "chair" by the fridge. Yep, I eat there.
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Seriously, my curtains rock.
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You should have seen the first time I tried to heat the gas stove. I got scared and the match didn't even make it to the gas. I'm an expert now though.
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This is the offical Soviet room. I just leave it there and don't touch it. I finally opened the window yesterday because it smelled like no one had been in there since the fall of the USSR. Dad, this is totally your room when you come. I hope you like it!
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SOS Album
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Kiev, Ukraine
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St. Andrew's Church
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Don't worry, it's a frappuccino at the Кофе Хауз (Coffee House).
(For you Alissa!)
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Mother Motherland is a monumental statue of the "Mother Motherland" in Kiev, Ukraine. The sculpture is a part of Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Kiev. Built by Yevgeny Vuchetich, the titanium statue stands 62 meters tall upon the museum building with the overall structure measuring 102 m and weighing 530 tons. The sword in the statue's right hand is 16 m long weighing 9 tons, with the left hand holding up a 13 m by 8 m shield with the Coat of arms of the Soviet Union.
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Statues at the memorial complex depicting the 1943 Battle of the Dnieper during World War 2.
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Part of the Lavra
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I saw this and had to take a picture of it. After all the beggers I've seen, this one hit me the hardest.
Hillsong Ukraine
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Taras Shevchenko National Opera Theatre
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Where the Orange Revolution took place. It was a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005, in the immediate aftermath of the run-off vote of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election which was claimed to be marred by massive corruption, voter intimidation and direct electoral fraud.
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Overlooking the Dnipro River
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The Rainbow Arch which is part of the Friendship of Nations Monument. It lights up at night.
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Puppet Theater over 80 years old in Kiev's park.
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Lock bridge at Park Misky Sad where newly married couples will come and put a lock which symbolizes their lasting relationship.
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Golden Gate
This fortified wall, defining the limits of the city and serving as a protective barrier from invaders in the past centuries, dates back to 1037, the reign of Prince Yaroslav the Wise. The place was restored to its present condition in 1983, and it now serves as the Golden Gate historical museum.
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Cathedral church in the Lavra
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Hands Up for Poverty
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Hands Up for Poverty
Upload a photo of a word or words on your hand describing HOPE International or the microentrepreneurs with whom HOPE works. Explain to us why you selected the word you did and we’ll donate $5 per entry to provide microloans for the men and women who are overcoming poverty with HOPE’s help. Thank you for providing a Hand Up!
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Hands Up for Poverty
Upload a photo of a word or words on your hand describing HOPE International or the microentrepreneurs with whom HOPE works. Explain to us why you selected the word you did and we’ll donate $5 per entry to provide microloans for the men and women who are overcoming poverty with HOPE’s help. Thank you for providing a Hand Up!
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Independence Square at night
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It was cool...but awesome.
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Ukraine spelled in Ukrainian
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St. Sophia's Bell Tower
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St. Sophia's 13 beautiful golden domes nicely blend with the city skyline. The grandiose ensemble was built by Prince Yaroslav the Wise in the XI century in commemoration of the victory over the Pecheneg tribe. The cathedral became a major cultural and political center of Kievan Rus and a site for receiving ambassadors from many countries. St. Sophia is famous for its outstanding mosaics and frescoes dating to the eleventh century.
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This man sat outside St. Sophia's and played awesome Ukrainian music.
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That's the book that never left our hands while touring around the city.
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Kiev Pecherska Lavra
The Dnipro Hills are dominated by the greatest monument of Kiev, the Pecherska Lavra, built almost nine centuries ago. A complex of churches, masterpieces of architecture by themselves, has been a holy place of worship for devout Christians. Famous for its catacombs with the saints' relics, Lavra is also called the Monastery of Caves. Museum collections of miniatures and church treasures amaze visitors from all over the world.
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Lavra
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We had to have our head covered to go into the Lavra...at one point we didn't and this lady yelled at us.
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At the soccer game: Ukraine vs. Turkey
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Ukraine lost.
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Client visits at a near by market.
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One of HOPE Ukraine's Christian clients
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Super European Mullet-Man to the rescue! This will never get old.
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"Toilet" in Cyrillic
Fun in the Free Time
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Moldova - My Country
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Trafficking??? I guess there's no way to know until you call.
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Grapes grow like weeds in this country, hints the wine-making.
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Maggie and I at Jess' apartment
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Mer and I at the BBQ.
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Peace Corp and Invest Credit unite...Kieran, Maggie, me, Jess, Mer
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A long day, but a good picture and a good...nose ring. Yep.
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Jess and I are new nose-ring buddies.
P.S. Mom, I got a nose-ring.
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HOPE Interns rock my face off!!!
Prospective Client Visit
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Moldovan flag above the mayor's office in village of Visoca.
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A bench outside the Orthodox church
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The well outside the church
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Mer and Evelina waiting for the mayor and his wife to talk to them about their business.
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These cookies were amazing...business meetings in Moldova always involve a lot of cookies, tea, and coffee. I like it.
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This week we had a business meeting about 3 hours from our home office. We got information about the company in order to write a business plan of a greenhouse owner. This company is trying to get a loan from our microfinance organization.
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This greenhouse business employees over 150 people. They want a loan to put a plastic covering on the greenhouses and then install heat, gas, and water so that profit can increase and their employees can work all year round.
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Mayor of the village and husband of the greenhouse owner
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The owner of the greenhouse business and her daughter
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Greenhouse owner, her husband, and some of their employees
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One of Moldova's largest export is tabacco. This is one of the places where they dry the tobacco.
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Evelina and I at the tobacco huts.
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Mer and I at the tobacco huts :)
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These women sit on the ground all day and string tobacco on rope and then hang them to dry. They make approximately 1,000 lei a month...which is about $100 a month. They work 10 hour days, 6 days a week, 4 weeks a month = 240 hours a month. $100 a month divided by 240 hours a month = $0.42 per hour. They are only seasonal workers, so they don't do this year-round, but something still doesn't seem right.
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Stringing tobacco
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Stringing tobacco
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She's extrememly beautiful if you look past the dirt. Her eyes were this mesmerizing green-color.
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Soroca's wooden fortress was built in 1499. This stone fortress was rebuilt between 1543-1546.
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After our business meeting, we stopped at this fortress on our way home. So cool.
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The fortress from the inside
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I climbed in a "window" while we were coming down the stairs in one of the towers.
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Orthodox church inside one of the cambers of the fortress
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Mom, you should probably know that I got locked into a 16th century fortress...it's just what happens here in Moldova.
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On our way out of the fortress entrance
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Our driver took us to a "quick restaurant" he knew about. It was pretty impressive...and strangely cheap.
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This is what we like to call a business dinner. :)
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Seriously, the napkins were HUGE. So I decided to hide behind one.
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Another huge export in Moldova is wine. Almost all the people in the villages make their own house wine. It's a very cultural to have wine during almost every meal.
Chisinau + Summer = this!
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4th of July!
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Does anyone think it's weird that this police car is just randomly parked in the street?
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Sweet fountain in the downtown park
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Orthodox churchs are everywhere
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I'd been trying to track down Bethany and Tim for awhile and I finally found them at the 4th of July party! The other guy knows Dave Nonnemacher...imagine that.
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My beautiful bedroom! Isn't it cute?!?!?!? And strangely clean.
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I also have the best closet EVER!
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Welcome to the apt
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I want everyone to notice my US shrine. Almost everyone who comes over looks through my SOS journal. Thanks for all your love notes. I read them a lot. The other album is from my 3rd South girls...oh, how I love them! Thanks girls.
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I finally found a coffee pot...praise, Jesus!
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Mer and I were trying to do a Moldovan pose...we don't quite look like they do. We tried.
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Free concert in the park with the girls
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One of the bands playing in the park
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Tania is a Moldovan sweet-heart.
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This is the market I go to daily for lunch
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The fruit is SO good!
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Welcome to my desk at Invest Credit. This is where I spend at least 9 hours a day during the week.
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An old lady sits in that chair and sells cigarettes on the side of the street.
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A random finding on my walk to work
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You can find this located outside my friends soviet apartment buidling.
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This is about as good as street signs get.
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I've been told that the house I'm staying in is the only one in Moldova with a drier for laundry. It might be a little exaggerated, but I don't think it's too far off.
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At the moment I took this picture, I felt like I was taken back in time and ended up in this crazy place where they only sell really bad cheese.
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This is the the central market in Chisinau. It's HUGE, but pretty cool.
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This is my boss' house. Him and his wife just built it. There's 4 apartments/rooms they rent out. I live in the basement. It's really beautiful and in a nice part of town. It takes me about 40 minutes to walk to work every morning. It's a great way to start the day, unless I'm really late.
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Moldovans live off sunflower oil.
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More oil
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Selling sunflower seeds
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Beets = the meal of champions...or maybe just Moldovans.
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Alcohol is a big deal here! It's also really cheap. There's a pretty big wine industry in Moldova. A lot of people in the villages make their own house wine. To say the least, it's kind of frowned upon that I don't drink.
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Central market
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My friend took this pic, I really like it. Definitely not a problem to smoke ANYWHERE here. It's actually the norm.
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Odessa Beach-life in Ukraine
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Black Sea = goodness. The beach was awesome. The weather was perfect. It was pretty crowded though.
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One of my favorites! Yay, Mer.
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There's definitely a lady that walks around the beach and sells sweet corn from a bag. I kind of doubt that it tastes as good as Iowa summers, but this little girl seemed to love it.
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There's nothing like playing some frisbee on the beach.
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Why is this kid wearing a sailor hat? I don't know, but it's stinkin' cute.
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Jess and Patch...and the creepy kid to the left that kept following them.
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Remember those lame ladys that budged in front of us to take a picture and Jess yelled at them in English. Great times.
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I love these girls. :)
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Thank you for this awesome picture, friends.
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Some people think we look a like...I don't know if it's just because we're the only natural blondes in Moldova or we really do look similar. Too bad she already has a twin.
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I'm glad this took 4 times.
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Mer and I had the best cake IN THE WORLD at this place. It was like chocolate mouse meets chocolate cheesecake in the best possible way.
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Jess and I don't really take normal pictures...and we like it that way :).
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We ate at this sweet Russian resturant. Then Patch danced with a bear. The end.
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In Moldova the only way girls take pictures are with really seductive looks on their face, no smiles, and a lot of skin showing. Mer and Jess have obviously been in Moldova for way too long.
Just kidding...don't worry they're not that culturally sensitive.
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I have a new love for dresses now. Thank you Eastern Europe for making me dress-up every day.
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I decided I wanted to eat Jessica with my (Mer's) dress. She's scared...I would be too.
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Back dives for everyone.
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I think the sun had finally gotten to the guys.
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This was the bus that took us back to the hostel after our last day at the beach. I really love this picture.
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We were all pretty tired after doing nothing all day...the way life should be.
6-7-09 Moldova Life
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Out at a local restaurant called Seasons. Brenna was here for the internal audit and took all of us out - Me, Jessica (HOPE Intern), Brenna, Meredith (HOPE Intern), Ghena (Invest Credit's Executive Director), and Alina (his wonderful wife). It was a really fun night with a crazy ending. You can ask me about that later.
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Jess and I attempting scramble-face...Ghena was a little slow on taking the picture so we just kind of lost it.
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Scramble-face. The Moldovans thought we were really strange Americans for doing such things.
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The park I go to after work to relax or run.
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These little boys were catching tadpoles with the biggest net they could find. I thought it was really cute.
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I park is really nice, but I feel like it has probably seen better days.
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There's this semi-abandoned amusement park. I feel like someone will die if they actually ride the rides.
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I think this would be a good chance to inform you that anything that has to do with small children has these colors on it...and ONLY these colors. The shades don't even differ. Thank you communism for having a maximum of 5 colors to pick.
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I made some friends at the abandoned amusement park. There were like 8 little puppies running around. We hung out for a while. They will soon grow up and terrorize the city of Chisinau. For now, I think they're pretty stinkin' cute. Don't worry, I washed my hands afterwards.
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His paws are my favorite.
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Orheiul Vechi, also known as "Old Orhei", stretches along river Raut, which flows into the river Nistru (Dniestr) near Dubăsari further to the east. The more you get to the east, the deeper the river valley becomes. Here, the Răut is cutting into a thick layer of soft limestone.
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Village outside Orheiul Vechi
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There's an old monastery/church in a cave near Chisinau. It's pretty sweet and obviously they take security pretty seriously.
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The remoteness and beauty of the Moldovan countryside makes it an ideal place for erecting a monastery. Orthodox monks found out about that in the 13th century and founded the Manastire in Pestera (Cave Monastery).
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Looking out of the Monastery "window"
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Window looking into the monastery
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Orthodoax church candles
Approx. 95% of Moldova is Eastern Orthodoax.
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Executive Director of my company. He took us to visit these cool places!
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Beautiful countryside of Moldova
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Abandoned Orthodoax church
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Steps up to the Orthadoax church
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A lot of the buildings here are made out of cement blocks. Also, almost all of the houses in the villages have some sort of gate all the way around them.
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An old traditional Moldovan house
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Inside the bedroom
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Dinner anyone...or atleast cheese?
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Agriculture is big here...but I'm still not convinced it's as big as it is in Iowa. Plus, they pretty much farm Amish-style.
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Moldovan village life
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A fairly average depiction of a house in the village
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Learning to make strawberry jam
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They paint all the trees white here. They think it's pretty and keeps the bugs away.
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Invest Credit is where I work! Woot, woot.
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Soviet apartment buildings...a majority of all the building look like this, and a majority of the people here live in one. Very little variety.
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Jessica, another intern and great friend! She pretty much rocks.
Traditional Moldovan drink...I forget it's name. It's basically boiled apples, pears, and other fruit. It needs more sugar if you ask me :).
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This is Alina, the master of Moldovan crepes. SO GOOD! Really thin pancakes, then take the sweet and condensed milk and put if on the pancake, then roll. I'm learning to make them, because they rock my world.
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Favorite Moldovan food.
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Yep, you want one.
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Patrick (Jess' Peace Corp boyfriend), Jessica (friend and intern), Ghena (Executive Director of Invest Credit), Alina (Ghena's wife...sweet heart!), Meredith (other intern), Allison (Meredith's sister who came to visit.)
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How Moldova, and now me, do shopping.
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Bus ride to the village with Jess!
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Best strawberries in the world. The color says it all.
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Jess making the dough for Placintes.
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Natasha...a wonderful woman who had us over and showed us how to make Moldovan-goodness. She's great.
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Brinza - Moldovan versino of cheese. They make it themselves, and yes...it is that chunky.
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Natasha's boy Timon. He's so cute, him and his little Russian voice.
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Making Placinte.
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Rollin' the dough.
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Who doesn't love kids...does it really matter that I'll never be able to talk to him? Not at this moment.
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Fun times.
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Natasha's house in the village with her kids playing.
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Fried Placintes. Don't worry, I ate a lot that day.
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Her eyes are beautiful, and I had her mom tell her so for me. Then she picked me flowers :).
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Picking sweet cherries from the tree.
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The meal I had today. Rice, chicken, onions, and other goodness wrapped in grape and cabbage leaves. It was really good...don't let the leaves tell you otherwise.