MoldovAnn

I added a couple new links to the sidebar. I am very excited about RPCV podcast, which has interesting discussions with Returned Peace Corps Volunteers about their time in PC. You can download the podcast, but I recommend listening and watching the stream from the website itself so you can see the photos they are talking about.

The other new link is for PAUCI, the Polish-Ukrainian Cooperation Foundation. I recently started volunteering with them, and am doing mostly proofreading so far (English version of the website, project proposals, and reports). They are a nice group of people, and I really like the work they do. I’m looking forward to being involved with them in the coming months. By the way, the organization used to be called the Poland-America-Ukraine Cooperation Initiative, but when the U.S. stopped funding the project, they re-organized into a new Foundation. It just infuriates me that so much international aid from the U.S. is being withdrawn from great projects like this one and redirected to Bush’s mess in the Middle East!

The books I’ve read lately are: Bury Me Standing, by Isabel Fonseca (about the Roma, or Gypsies – fascinating!); I Wonder as I Wander, by Langston Hughes (his autobiography of travels in the 1930’s to Haiti, Cuba, the Soviet Union, Soviet Central Asia, and Spain – one of the best books I’ve ever read); Tooth and Nail, by Ian Rankin; Bones and Silence, by Reginald Hill; and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, by John Berendt.