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We Wait for You de Annabelle Townson

We Wait for You

Autor Annabelle Townson
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Forty-eight Americans fired with anticipation, free flowing adrenaline and serious anxiety, ranging in age from twenty-three to eighty two, touched down from Dulles Airport, Washington, D.C., in Bucharest, Otopeni Airport on June 16, 2001. We had volunteered to become United States Peace Corps volunteers in Romania for a two-year commitment. Our frazzled group was immediately bused to the city of Ploiesti, Prahova County, in south central Romania for language and cross-cultural training. We would be "trainees" for ten weeks and become "volunteers" upon completion. Who is to know, after weeks crammed together eight hours a day in classrooms how we would fare?
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781500503840
ISBN-10: 1500503843
Pagini: 122
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 7 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: CREATESPACE

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We Wait for You chronicles the lives of average citizens in Post-Ceausescu Romania. Seen through the eyes of Annabelle Townson, an American Peace Corps volunteer in Romania from 2001-2003, this personal memoir offers a fascinating and timely account of the aftermath of the fall of Communism.

Cuprins

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Historic Origins
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 In the Beginning
Chapter 5 Observations and Revelations
Chapter 6 Unheard Voices Speak
Chapter 7 Their Ordinary Lives
Chapter 8 A Different View
Chapter 9 Two Cultures
Chapter 10 We Too Are Unique
Chapter 11 In the End
Chapter 12 Epilogue
Chapter 13 Personal Profile

Recenzii

This is a fine book. ...Townson seems genuinely inclined to steer away from Western paternalisms. While she observes and explicates the social and political weaknesses she encountered in Romania, she discovers in the hearts and minds of the people she now knows as friends many values, traditions, and intellectual gifts that Americans and others in the West have either misplaced or never knew. ...for those scholars who wish to look beyond a bricks and mortar study of Romanian culture, this poignant unleashing of Romanian voices will be a welcomed addition to the field.
Ms. Townson's first book has effectively succeeded in capturing the duality of her Romanian experience-despair over the moral and spiritual state of the society paralleled by deep affection for the people.