2008.01.05: January 5, 2008: Headlines: COS - Macedonia: Fremont News-Messenger: Jennifer Arnold is serving with the Peace Corps in Macedonia
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2008.01.05: January 5, 2008: Headlines: COS - Macedonia: Fremont News-Messenger: Jennifer Arnold is serving with the Peace Corps in Macedonia
Jennifer Arnold is serving with the Peace Corps in Macedonia
Arnold has been assigned to work for an environmental nonprofit, nongovernmental organization in Veles called Vita Zora, which is to set and implement environmental policy. Activities include raising public awareness, improvement of health quality, publishing brochures, performing training, organizing workshops, and teaching in primary and secondary schools. She surprised the locals be being the first woman in that position, and she has worked hard to prove her worth, said her mother.
Jennifer Arnold is serving with the Peace Corps in Macedonia
CHS grad spending 3 years in Peace Corps in Europe
JEANETTE LIEBOLD-RICKER
Jennifer Arnold, a 1991 Clyde High School graduate, is serving with the Peace Corps in Macedonia, which is north of Greece. There she is living in her own apartment in the city of Veles. She is one of a group of 40 who will be serving there for two years and three months.
Arnold left the U.S. in September and will serve there until December 2009.
She is an outgoing person, said her mother, and has a master's degree in public administration from Bowling Green State University and a political science degree from Heidelberg College. Arnold has been assigned to work for an environmental nonprofit, nongovernmental organization in Veles called Vita Zora, which is to set and implement environmental policy.
Activities include raising public awareness, improvement of health quality, publishing brochures, performing training, organizing workshops, and teaching in primary and secondary schools. She surprised the locals be being the first woman in that position, and she has worked hard to prove her worth, said her mother.
Arnold spent her first weeks living with a host family, who helped teach her the language and culture, but she has since moved to her own apartment in the city, which has good local Internet access.
The language is hard to learn. "Just when you think you are getting it, something crazy is introduced like perfect verbs that changes the whole concept of things", she wrote in an e-mail to her parents, Deb and Mike Arnold, of rural Clyde.
Deb said that Jennifer bakes a lot of cookies and welcomes shipments of peanut butter. Her host family likes American cookies and cannot understand why in the world she puts peanut butter on bread.
Arnold has witnessed funerals at Sveti Nikoki, which are almost a citywide event. The funeral procession goes through town, with people walking behind the car containing the body, and everyone along the way stops what they are doing to pay their respects, including turning down music in cafes. If the deceased was an important person, he is followed by a band. The procession may stop three times on the way to the cemetery so the priest can say a prayer.
Her address is Jennifer Arnold, c/o Vila Zora, Trajko Panov 22, 1400 Veles, Republic of Macedonia.
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