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i am going to turkey

we descided today

2 hours later we are going

our tickets arent till next monday

but we will have 7 days on the beach in treehouses overlooking the med

be amazed and jealous

i am- of myself! and my 3 friends

i am sooo getting laid

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dear facebook not myspace

dear facebook-

i am sorry it's been awhile. turkmenistan government run internet cafes have unfairly blocked you making it impossible for me to enjoy comments, friend requests and messages. i am not too mad because they just dropped their prices making it more affordable for me to sit for hours on my email. i do miss you, facebook, but alas there is always the peace corps office internet. we will find ways to meet up facebook. don't you worry. but until then if it is urgent matters gmail is not blocked so hit me up at vonbunny@gmail.com.

your number 1 fan
davonne



ps. i miss you and hate posting this on myspace
wah wah hey

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filterless

hells to the yay
spring has come
not only has the muslim new year passed us here in turkmenistan with lots of vodka toasts and "Noruz gutly bolson davonne"
but i also ate my first tomatoes in 6 months MEANING spring is here
the apricot trees are blooming
the desert is green with brush
and i am healthy and enjoying the weather

this week i am off to ashgabat to help run the model united nations
i am proud of all 15 of my kids for representing their nations
i am also running game night and boy are these kids up for a mean game of jeapordy
we are going by train which means i will be disguisting and tired
but at least i will be in the big city

also happening this month is the walk
the walk from my village to adrienne’s
about 25 kilometers
we are taking a day
and having a picnic under some trees
she is like my boyfriend if she was a boy and i wanted to do it with her
we are doing this walk in honor of our birthday celebration/challenge
we are also eating a carrot cake afterwards
i have been running everynight to prepare

small challenges are keeping me going

8 more months and i am planning my last vacation
if jon custer ever gets over to kyrystan carissa and i will be vacationing there
if not somewhere in north india is in the plans
either way it will be a cheap relaxing vacation

i have also become aware that whatever filter i had is now gone
carissa says i never had a filter to begin with
but i think i did
but never the less i just say whatever pops into my pretty little head these days
in whatever language
which is not healthy
and i scared a flirty american who lives in ashgabat by talking about bm
that’s right
see i can talk about whatever in front of pcvs but other americans dont seem to get it
top 3 pcv topics: poop, sex and food or politics

other than that
i went to an american wedding
which is where i found the flirty american
a previous volunteer married a turkmen from our region
it was a good time
i got to hang out with his mom and dad
which made me homesick
i got really wasted
and made an ass out of myself
but everybody laughed
ate the best cake i have ever had here (tstan is not known for their moist sweet cakes)
the wedding kinda made me want to marry a turkmen
too bad turkmen men are filthy

i am beginning to realize what i will be leaving behind here
but i am also really excited about the unknown future
and the possibility of getting laid.

life is good in the spring
d

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damn it feels good to be a gansta

uhhhh
some terrorists blew up an internet cable underneath the medatranian sea and that is fucking up my internet
i hate terrorists


vacation was awesome
check out the pics
it was so good i dont even want to talk about it
i just want to dream about it
to sum it up
i ate 6 meals on my last day in bankok including: pad thai, mcdonalds nuggets, mexian food, ben and jerrys, pizza, subway sandwitch and more pad thai
oh and when i came back i was delighted to find i lost more weight

i loved cambodia more than thailand and i want to move there
in cambodia i:
ate happy pizza
went and saw the ocean
saw some killing fields
saw some temples
rode on motos (shh dont tell pc)
got felt up by a woman cop
got drunk a lot
crashed a huge expensive party on new years where I:
flirted with a man over 50
danced new years night away
drank for free
had some paki tongue down my throat
stole a mask
almost got us busted
sang irish songs while dancing with some irish folks
saw giant rats on the walk home
and
stumbled into a huge gutter in a dark bazaar

basically it's a giant blur
but i want to keep it that way

i am having dreams about home
which means 10 more months before a month of southeast asia then home
my COS trip (competion of service) will be laos, vietnam, cambodia (if i can convience carissa to go again) malasia, and singapore and then home
she wants to do indonesia and i want to do south korea but i dont think there is time
1 month whirlwind
i hear vietnam is worth it though
anyone care to join me?
i am doing india this summer
it's cheap


i am excited about the elections

and i am tired of it being -10 here
when does spring come in this damn country
this year it got down to -28 C which is about -16 F
it was colder here than siberia
at least that's what al jazeera news told me

so i am trying to stay warm
and get out of bed everymorning
i keep repeating "only 10 more months"
i can't wait

d

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happy 16th year of independence turkmenistan.

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ET go home
Current mood: early terminate?

i wonder what it would be like to quit peace corps

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me mekman long time

so i have been here for about 11 months. next month it will be a whole year. and in the first week of october the newbies will be here- hopefully over 50 of them. it is an exciting time. i came back to a whirlwind of activity/drama/fun and i have made up my mind that since 11 months is nothing i can finish this thing. there is something to say about completing your service. a lot of people get really close and then terminate peace corps for various reasons- job offers, grad school, stuff back home. but i really want to make to the end. i want to get my ticket to america cash it in and travel till christmas and then fly in and start the new year at home. i know this sounds far off, but time is just flying. it helps that it is wedding season and school starts next month, so in between tutoring various students, preparing my lesson plans, jetting off to 3 to 4 parties a week and trying to stay hydrated in this heat i have barely had time to breath much less do laundry or pick up my room.

the good news is that my lost luggage somehow made it all the way to this wild and crazy country. the bad news, it appears to have sat on a tarmac in germany for about a week. damn germany and its rain. oh well it all dried but the smell of mildew lingers and some of my clothes got dyed fun colors. but peace corps volunteers do love their tevas and tie-dye so i guess i just fit in more.

i also now have my old 2002 ibook here with me, so expect more frequent emails...when i can get into the city which is usually about twice a month. also the price for internet just got cheaper so i can now afford more fast connections on my $120 a month.

last night I went to my biggest wedding yet. it was intense. The family is filthy rich and has a nicer computer than most people do in the states and paid thousands of dollars for this party. they have 4 sons all of whom work, study and live in Turkey. But it was time for the oldest to get married to a nice turkmen girl and so they threw an awesome party. and of course the American, being me, was the guest of honor. They paid 700 dollars to have some of the best singers and musicians from a neighboring velyat come and dj the whole thing. It was non stop dancing...and the boys who have lived in Turkey knew how to dance which ended up being hilarious when they would drag me into their dancing circle and they would try to grind up on me in front of a thousand of my villagers. i thought of it as a cultural exchange. turkmen know how to party by the way. I almost passed out from heat exhaustion. I am still recovering this morning from vodka induced dance hangover.

and tomorrow I am going to the city for an Uzbek wedding which will be intense because those Uzbeks know how to dance and know how to drink.

other than that I thought I would include a list of what Turkmenistan has taught me in my past 11 months here so here it goes

Turkmenistan has taught me
- how to squat over a hole for over an hour
- how to contract worms
- how to Turkmen and Uzbek dance
- how to get people out of canal ditches when they fall in drunk
- how to fight/run from huge russian fighting dogs
- how bitchy camels are
- how good camel meat is
- how to sew up holes in all my clothes
- how to wash all my clothes by hand in under an hour
- how to lose 35 pounds
- how to eat with my hands
- how to survive winters by only consuming tea, rice, potatoes, carrots, meat, bread and onions
- how russian books are the best toilet paper
- how to develop immunities to Turkmen water (I can now drink it and not get sick! yay immunities)
- how to knit
- how to make origami cranes
- how to speak Turkmen and understand a lot of Russian
- how to drink a bottle of vodka in one night
- how great my family and friends are for putting up with me while i do this crazy adventure
- how to turn down marriage proposals from taxi drivers
- how much I am worth as a bride (10,000 dollars is the highest bid so far from my one armed suitor)
- how to laugh at the insanity of this place, my situation, and just myself
- how to discipline Turkmen children without beating them
- how to play chess
- how to not die in heat that reaches 115 degrees
- how to walk in a desert
- how to give yourself 2nd degree burns from hot soup
- how green tea can not only be used to clean all of your dirty dishes but also your greasy hands after eating polov without utilizes
- how kind these people are whether Turkmen, Uzbek, Azarian, or Russian¬

Turkmenistan has given me
- buff arms from pulling up all my own water from our well
- buff thighs from squatting over holes they call toilets
- patience
- a chance to read over 70 books
- a new family to love along with a new level of love for my family thousands of miles away
- plans for the future
- badass vacations
- a new respect for my motherland
- the title of ex-pat (patriot)
- a new look at the world and my role in it
- a life list that i now will complete for the rest of my life
- a chance to plant and harvest my own garden
- loneliness, sadness, depression, craziness, fright
- and the realization that all those things are not a bad thing

This place is a lot of things. But I am beginning to realize it is just a state of mind. a state of being. And I/you/anyone can master any place with the right mentality. Most of all this place is my home for right now.

That being said I miss you all like you would never imagine. But for the next 15 months this place is my state of mind. I don't think Turkmenistan is quite done teaching me and giving me things.
Thanks for tuning in to this frequency.
Until next time....

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars - Persian Proverb

Uzbek for crazy in love-
Davonne

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back to the village...
Category: Life

goodbye internet

i will see you in a month

like america, my luggage, and my youth you will be missed

holla at me guys...

i will get em

eventually

loveyalongtime

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soap

I think I just drank soap.

So I am back from my vacation and it was a crazy 32 hours of airports, customs, screaming babies, and delayed flights.

I missed 2 flights back to back because my first one out of Corpus was delayed 2 hours because of freak showers in Houston. Global Warming? Since when does it rain in Texas during the month of July???

So I was calm cool and collected for all of this mess even when I almost missed my flight to London because my New York flight was held up by a mentally handicapped man who descided he needed to go potty when they were trying to take off...later that man's brother yelled at me for shoving past him...guy needs to get a grip. I remained upbeat silly Davonne. Talked to people. Met people. Exchanged life stories. you know typical airport conversations/relationships.

and i did make the flight to London which was great and i jumped around for. but I did get bit in the ass one final time. maybe it's karma for hating that mentally handicapped man who caused me and 210 other people so much stress and frustration but my bag didn't. the bag i spend 7 days packing and loading full of things i "need"

including but not limited to

pictures of my parent's wedding

peanut butter

fabric

bandanas

high heeled shoes that I love

origamio paper

style magazines for designing new dresses from the above material

catch 22

keys to my host families house and my room

gifts

i was also carrying stuff for other people including but not limited to

an ipod nano

a harddrive

cs lewis books

cds

and it just sucks

i have spent the last 12 hours in breakdown mode

over one stupid bag!

but it was really important

even if it did hold a lot of silly things

they were all priceless to me

and my mom and i spent a week shopping

and she bought all of it

and for what

cus i know i am not ever going to see it again

i live in turkmenistan

international flights only come here twice a week

so that's my rant

its 420 here

in the morning

i should probably sleep but instead I have to stay up until it is a resonable time and I can call staff people to talk about what to do next

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i blew threw america
Category: Life

well america...
you treated me just right. I experienced some "difficulties" at first.
I had to get over some stomach problems and some anxiety.
but i made you and your toliets my bitch, america
so thanks.

I would like to give shoutouts to-
all the people who gave me rides all around texas, ashley and nicole for hosting the pizza party, hip hop night for hippin and hoppin, baby a's and all the other mexican food i ate during my 14 day food extraviganza, monopoly and destiny for letting me kick male andy's ass at the money game, female andi for cooking up some mad dumplings, daniel for schooling me on good new music, camden/baby daddy for being crazy,  my brother for punching me out, my new ipod for the loads of entertainment it will provide me in tstan, mexican beer, silver pines for making me dance, all the people who let me sleep in their beds, all the puppies that let me play with them (bucket, ginger, beasley), pizza from deblozios (sp???), everyone who provided me with drinks, all the people that I humped (jess, bettina, ashley, sarah...I can't remember you all but thanks for all the humps), thai thai, toliets for me to poop in, actual running water, and harry potter.
special shout out to the kids in the harvey house, the peace castle of austin (which i think is salmon colored), the mlk kids, the crew from fort walnut and the rr12 ladies. thanks for making my trip yall
sorry if i forgot to mention you personally but please know you own my heart, duh.

I wish I could have seen everyone that I love and miss but I am thankful to the handful I got to see at the Silver Pines show, at Rojilos, at the Pizza Party, at Hip Hop night, and at Thai Thai. Thanks for welcoming me back. It was like I had never left. I miss yall. but I'll be back to do my tour of America....December 2008.

send me mail

Davonne head

Peace Corps/ Turkmeistan

Lebap Welayat Turkmenabat-22

Central Post Office Mail box 46

Turkmenabat, 746100

TURKMENISTAN

thanks again to everyone

i love you and miss you

see you 15 months...

it will fly

i hope

turkmen davonne

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