I started
this blog in 2008 as I embarked on the biggest journey of my life—joining Peace
Corps in Kyrgyzstan. Though I stopped updating it mid-service, I've been told
several times over nearly a decade that people, both strangers and friends,
actually enjoyed reading it. I'm glad that I was able to, in some small way,
work towards Peace Corps’ Goal 3 of “Helping promote a better understanding of
other peoples on the part of Americans.”
Fortunately
for me, my life has been substantially less idle than my blog. The highlights
of the past eight years would be something like:
-worked for Catholic Relief Services in the emergency
response to the 2010 Osh riots
-moved to Japan to join Saori and lived with her mother
grandparents for four years
-worked in the HQ of a chain of English designing curricula
and digital learning tools
-got married
-came back to the US in 2015 for grad school
-graduated and moved to DC last year to take a research job
with Save the Children
I’ve
recently been feeling the urge to write again. I travel a lot for my current
job and am often gripped by the peculiarities of life that inspired me to share
my experiences here in the first place. I don’t plan to post here regularly,
but rather share the occasional anecdote from my current life and from memories
from past years. I hope you’ll indulge me.
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