7.10.2006

Updates - July 10

Well, Winkflash continues to be a headache. To further clarify: you MUST sign up for a free account with Winkflash in order to view my photos. Then, from your account page, click on the "View Friend's" tab, and THAT is when you type in my username ("jcridlinmoore") and secret word ("Moe"), which will allow you access to all of my albums. I hope this solves the problem.

In other news, I am currently on my first visit to what will be my permanent site, a little town named Rekas just east of the City of Timisoara, in extreme western Romania. For those of you motivated enough to look it up on Encarta, it is in a region called the Banat, which stretches between western Romania, Serbia, and Hungary, and represents what was once the eastern end of the Habsburgs' Austro-Hungarian empire. It is a beautiful region of rolling hills, forest, and farmland, and is made up of a diversity of cultures and languages: Romanian, Croat, Hungarian, Serb, German, and Rroma (or "Gypsy"). Anyway, my new host family here are terrific people, and I'm excited to get to know the area better, after we "graduate" from training in two weeks and become full Peace Corps Volunteers. And then, I'll have two years to settle in! I'll try to get some more photos up as soon as possible. Hope everyone is well.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Dang! I went to the same learnin' place as you and I still took too long to figgur owt the pichurs thang.

Great pics and thanks for the added instructions Jon.