2 days of Exciting Mastacani - it's never boring (in the Summer)

So what happened these last two days? Big choices.

First, I decided to become a vegetarian, or just not each chicken for the next few months. We'll see how long I can hold out.
Why?

I had to behead another rooster last evening. It was beating up the other roosters (I had 3) and it was being very rough with the hens.
Seriously the choices were: 1). the cute one that comes when I call it that cooes at me, 2) the gentle, but biggest and toughest rooster that has the best crowing skills (crowing every 5 minutes all day), or 3). The one that would fertilize the best eggs and is pent on raping every hen it can find.
As I ate the meat, I could taste the meat, and I didn't feel all that hungry eating it...so I think I'm going to pause from the chicken eating.

Next, today I was doing the same old stuff at work (socializing, sitting at a computer, and searching for the mayor to discuss projects) I found out that the Red Cross was coming, so we all took a class and got certified for First -Aid.

We also got a first aid kit, that will be stored in the shed so no one will steal it....though I tried hard to convince them to leave them in easily accessible areas. They (librarian, and that dude who watches me weirdly) told me people would steal the gauze and bandages if we left it out....whadda we gonna do *shrugs shoulders.*

Then I continued to work at the mayor's office, but stopped at my emailing to eat 2 watermelons and a whole lot of bread (some guy gave us watermelon).


Then I went home at about 4pm.
After I had rewatered my chickens (I have 5 left), I decided to hang out with my neighbors and we talked about Bijoux, and what an awesome cat he was: loving to all people, good mouse hunter, eats everything, soft and playful, and how we missed him.
I was then playing badminton with my neighbor Yulla, when her dad honked his horn and Tina went and found a kitten in his trunk that looked like Bijoux. Tina loved her look (she has a nice long tail and big eyes) but they don't want a baby making kitten, so ...I took her in. She was scared and shivering, but we hope she'll get over that.

So I decided to adopt a cat (lots or responsibility, and money, and I think then, she'll come back to the US maybe, when I go...we'll see) and Yulla will name her and Tina will teach her some manners.

There will never be one the same....Bijoux died in a car accident 2 weeks ago. We (my neighbors and I) were only able to talk about him starting today. I miss his ears.

So those have been my last two days, and I've done other stuff too, but you got the highlights.
(30 minutes later)
The kitten has escaped from the shed, so we'll find out tomorrow if she's still around. Later.

My site!!!

The name is: Mastacani and there's smiley face accents over the first a and the 2nd a.


It's a small town located East, sort of South East of Romania.
It's next to the Danube River, and it's seriously right at the border of Moldova and Ukraine.
I am north of the city of Galati.

The stats:

Population: 6,100
I will be working in the Mayor's Office 4 hours a day (20 hours a week)
They've never had a PC member before.
I will be working in an office with 70% female staff.
What they need from PC: working on their water pump system, development of tourism, teaching IT, Environment, and English courses to children, and development of training courses for the community including project writing and networking.
What they wanted most from a PCV:
Management, project management, information technology experience, some teaching experience, experience with goverment.
(Seriously, does that last part describe me or what? I have all those skills, or at least experience in what they want).

I am very very very happy with my site!
I got to see the 12 sites available to us in my sector: CED and I didn't want to get my hopes too high, but it's a small rural community which is what I wanted and it's next to water and fishing!! which is one of my hobbies (too bad I didn't bring my rod and bait and all that fishing stuff I got for Christmas! (fish = peste with a swivel on the s)
This site also needs more management of small activities instead of hard core Business experience, which I lack, who am I kidding. I know advertising and marketing due to being a US raised person and from Desktop publishing in HS, and from projects in college, but nothing real serious.

There's still lots of business I'll probably be working with, but I feel like I can do this. Maybe I'll be wrong, but as of now, I feel confident enough.

Not everyone is as happy as I am....there will be things probably bad about my site too like lack of internet....which I hope won't be true.

I've tried to look online, but it's late and I need to go home to dinner.

I am definitely not good enough at my language to be out on my own, but like most other volunteers, I am ready to have my own place. 6 weeks is the point where the role of guest is changing and there's a large gray fuzzy line on what roles we need to play in our families.
I guess we're spoiled in that sense, since having a place of your own is a large luxury that many Romanians don't get to enjoy until well into their adulthood and they can afford it. That's what I've been told though. I was also told that EVERYone eats meat here and it was an awkward embarrassment when I tried to explain vegetarianism over dinner and they knew what it was....

Pa...until next time.

Along with our practicum projects, trying to study as much as I can, chores involved with living, gazda day, earth day, and sports......blogging is getting a little difficult to be consistent with, but then again, I think you've all heard it all, and there's really less to report these days.

p.s. to help me with my poor sentence structures I bought Harry Potter in Romanian. It was Matt's idea and I copied him. The first book is easy enough in Englez and HP is the most translated book in the world next to the Bible right? I think that's right. Okay, gotta go seriously now. Ne vedim mai tarziu (talk to you later).