Internacionalnoye Village

After two months of waiting, my suspense is over...Site announcements were made on Wednesday and rather than traveling to the far ends of the country, completely isolated from all civilization, miles away from other volunteers and more importantly Internet, I am actually moving CLOSER to Bishkek! While I had begun full mental preparation for a disastrous placement, I scored BIG and have been placed in the Internationalnoye Village (formerly Pervo Mai in Russian) which is a mere 40 km from the beautiful capital city of Bishkek in the Chui Oblast. Also, a good friend of mine here named Charlie has been placed in the neighboring village (its name escapes me at the moment but it doesn't matter). Together we have already planned an outing for the first day of Spring at the one golf course in Kyrgyzstan which is located just outside....wait, wait, yes of course, Bishkek!

Life is good here and about to get even better...I go to visit my village and host family next week and will bring back more info then...

That's it for now,
Rick