Wednesday, June 18, 2008

preparing for viata

My work these first few weeks has revolved around preparing for Viata, the summer program. Training starts in a week! This has included organizing the gear room, washing sleeping bags in my bathtub, sorting through lots of equipment, editing translations for an English version of our journal, writing e-mails to State-side and European challenge course inspection agencies, hoping to find a good price on an inspection for our course (and someone willing to come to Romania), and lots of other little things. It has been nice to jump right into things with the Foundation and feel immediately helpful.

All this prep work is important, but I am excited for the kids to come, and to be in the mountains with them and out of the office!

Last week a good friend and former roommate came to visit-Andrea. I got to meet her new 6-month old son, Stephan! It was so wonderful to see them! During the time I was living with Andrea she was pregnant with Stephan. I realized how tight of bounds I made with my Romanian friends here. They are all in little ways my hero. If I get pictures of her visit I will post them soon!

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