I am really lucky to be in Moldova and celebrate two Christmases and New Years. Most of the Orthodox church uses the old calendar which means they celebrate religious holidays on different dates. Today was Christmas. Under communism much of the Christmas traditions were moved to New Years to down play the religion. For example, Santa came on New Years eve (Their big new years celebration is the new one, Dec 31.)
For Christmas we went to Chisinau last night and stayed with my host Dad’s brother’s family. It was a lot of fun. The center of Chisinau is pretty lit of and it was a lot of fun. This morning we went to an orthodox church where my host cousin was singing in the Choir. Now, I don’t know much about music, but they were really good. I was really impressed. I think they sang for a good three hours with only a couple of breaks. Standing for the whole time wasn’t as much fun. After this we had a big delicious rabbit dinner and played games. I took a ton of pictures that I will try to upload when I get a chance.
I also found out that my host cousin is webmaster for the telephone and internet company. She speaks English quite well so it was nice to talk in my own language. And, maybe now I will be able to get an inside scoop on when we will be getting DSL!
Time for bed, Crăciun fericit
January 7th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Glad to hear about your two Christmases. Humm…that be my new Christmas song,All I Want for Christmas is My Christmas Days.
(Sounds odd.) I hope you are doing well, and let me know if you got the geek holiday card.
Jodi
January 8th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Merry Christmas again! Good to hear you had a fun time with your host family (and extended family)! Wow, that is a long time to stand! Hope your week has started off well! Talk to you later alligator!
God bless,
Jamie
January 9th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Hope all else is going well. I admire your courage and sense of adventure! I’m thinking about a work mission to the gulf in may - do you have any contacts in gulport biloxi or other? I’m thinking we want to work with specific families - perhaps get their home habital. God Bless!
January 15th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
Hey Ry Ry- It was great to hear form you during my Christmas break! I’ve been praying for you. We got about 6 inches of snow today. Job security for snow crew. Later Cheeto-
Andy
January 18th, 2007 at 5:10 am
Hi there and God Jul from Norway!
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February 2nd, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Glad you are doing well. Sorry I have not been in contact. I made the mistake of teaching 3 course at one time in the P&GS program - that will never happen again.
Thought you would be interested to know that I will be going to KZ on the 19th of Feb and then stopping over in Turkey for 6 days. Then in mid May I have a team of 3 going with me back to KZ.
Enjoyed looking at your pictures.
Need to go ….