Most of all thanks for Country Director Macie and the Peace Corps staff for allowing me the opportunity to return to Azerbaijan after sustaining a broken shoulder in a traffic accident. Frankly, I never imagined it would be so hard to say good-bye.
Re-adjustment issues started right away when Delta airlines reps. at JFK were so unhelpful after I missed my connecting flight to Mpls Saturday evening by 5 minutes and plane was sitting at gate but gate was closed! Sunday morning flight was filled with Delta customers who also missed connecting flights. Then I paid $2.49 for a pack of Trident gum. So much for Welcome Home!
I've opened up access to my blog again, and hope in the next few days to post some reflections on life back here in USA and also many wonderful memories of my service as a teacher in Azerbaijan. For now, I'm enjoying a cup of coffee and a bowl of Cheerios with skim milk for breakfast. Then it's time for a haircut, manicure and pedicure!
Always a photo and this one is of the guys in my Azerbaijani life who helped load my belongings for the trip to Baku: the taxi driver, Georgie and his brother Iggy, their father, and Arif, the father of Shalala Muellime, one of my English teachers.
