A great week

This has been a great week so far, and it's only Wednesday! They say that your service picks up speed and feels more fulfilling after you've been at site for 6 months. Well, I have certainly found that to be the case. Last week I was feeling a little bored and feeling like everything was just moving so slowly. But this week, that all changed.

As of yesterday I finally found a language tutor (I had been looking since my tutor moved away in November), and then found another one! So I went from having no tutor to having two tutors in one day! Amazing. My first lesson with one of them was today and it was really helpful. I am so glad to finally have tutoring again. :)

I have also been hoping to get a team together to participate in the Technovation Challenge, but it has been difficult to recruit participants. However, some of the recruiting I have done over the past weeks has paid off and as of this evening, we have a Technovation team from Cahul! I'm excited to work with them!

Yesterday, I finally started working on the grant application for the Communication and Documentary Club that I will be starting with my library counterpart and a local NGO called MOLDOX hopefully next month. We have been working on plans for the past 2 months, and now it's finally time to get rolling on applying for funds to purchase equipment and start recruiting participants. I am really excited about this club. I think it will be beneficial to participants and the our town, and I also think it will be really fun!

Peace Corps is hard because sometimes it feels like you aren't doing anything. But sometimes you get to see all the foundational work you have been doing start to pay off, and on those days being a Peace Corps Volunteer is the best job in the world.