First four weeks

Hi everybody

I've been here almost four weeks and I really enjoy it. I've got the biggest room in a nice flat and I've been told that my bed is the best bed in Chisinau. My flatmates are great. It a japanese guy called Atushi and an englishman called Chris. Atushi has just moved in so i don't know him so well yet but he seems nice and is very polite. Chris has been here almost a year a know everything about surviving in Moldova so I always ask him if I need advice. Actually the organisation wants me to ask my mentor but I don't really need a mentor so I've only talked to him very few times.

I'm working at an animation-center which is a place for kids to come after school, but there is only a few kids at the moment because most of them still have vacation so there is not much for me to do. Usually I go there a 3 o'clock (10 minutes walk) and teach my supervisor a bit english and then go home again at half three. They say it will change later when the kids start showing up.

I've started to play badminton again. It's a lot different from badminton back home. The conditions are very poor compared to Denmark and there are not as many good players. My coach will sign me up for a tournament in september where all the best moldovan and ukranian players will participate. It's gonna be very exciting but I don't think I will stand a chance to win.

Here people speak romanian and russian so if you want to speak to a local you have to speak one of those two languages. I'm supposed to learn Romanian but after the first week with romanianlessons every day I'm not really learn any romanian at the moment. Im spend most time with other volenteers speaking english and my supervisor at works speaks english as well so at the moment i'm not really forced to speak romanian.

Most weekends here have been party, party and more party. This weekend though I've been to a museum and in a themepark. There's an other volenteer called Julian who works at the museum and gives free guided tours so me and 10 other volenteers went to visit the museum. It was nice to learn something about the history of the country. After that some went to a themepark. Everything looked like it was about to break and would never have passed a test in Denmark but on the other hand. If a rolercoaster hasn't brooken in 60 years - why should it break today. The best part was the bumbcars that turned out to be fun. When we first looked at them they threw sparks and looked like they where falling apart but they where fun and thats the important part.

Next weekend me, Martyn, Marta and Ola is going to Lviv in Ukraine to visit som of Marta and Ola's friends. They where here two weeks ago and after some wine I promised to come and visit them. I think it's gonna be fun though.


Have fun!