The Easy Embargo

Easy as Pie, Easy like Sunday Morning, eggs over easy. All of these phrases are hence forth stricken from my vocabulary along with the word 'easy' itself, except when referring to slutty women, because it describes certain females with such razor like accuracy. The reason for the Easy Embargo is because I did not make the easy choice by going into the Peace Corps (PC) so the word easy suddenly seems obsolete, cruel in fact. Case in point, the Cyrillic alphabet (seen above). I have expressed how much the Cyrillic alphabet scares me. But I have started to study and determined how many letters make the same sound in English and look the same (8 of 33), six of the characters look the same as letters I know but make different sounds and the rest, well lets just say when I was studying at work the other day someone looked over my shoulder and exclaimed "You're studying chemistry?!" Craziness.
All of this may seem a tad dramatic, but I received my official invitation from the PC today, the other notification came by e-mail. This packet is very official, not really a packet, but an inch thick cardboard filing folder with tabs about a new passport (a special PC passport), insurance, plane tickets, visas, a lobotomy (just making sure you are paying attention). The conclusion to this all is that I knew in theory how much work there was going to be involved in this particular adventure that I am so hungry for, but when I look at the list which includes learning new teaching techniques and doing a teaching and technology practicum in country in my first three months there not to mention having to learn Ukrainian and Russian (it looks like I will have to learn both pretty proficiently). Now I am seeing how much there is to do and I am doing it, learning my alphabet so that it will be like second nature (one of my little kids [7 years old] saw me studying and I told her what I was doing and she said well if you are learning the alphabet then just sing the alphabet song. One of the sweetest things I have ever heard, and the smartest so I am trying to develop the Cyrillic alphabet song, but so far no dice as I do not know what phlegmy-cough type back of the throat sounds I have to make for each character) and I am filling out all the new fucking paperwork. Once the paper work is over things will never be easy, but they will exciting. I always keep that in mind.