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	<title>The Musings of Russell Shankland &#187; Peace Corps</title>
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	<description>The stories of a Peace Corps volunteer turned law student</description>
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		<title>Looking Back: 50 Years of the U.S. Peace Corps</title>
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		<title>Rolling in Istanbul</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 21:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Istanbul, Turkey Over Easter break, I hopped the Orient Express to Istanbul with three friends. This mighty “City of Seven Hills” has repelled countless invaders throughout the ages. For six days, we four brave adventurers valiantly laid siege to it. &#8230; <a href="http://russellshankland.com/musings/peace-corps/rolling-in-istanbul/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Homestretch</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The countdown to my glorious homecoming has officially begun. Barring the unforeseen, my plane will coast into Kansas City International Airport on July 2, 2007. (Whoever is responsible for booking the marching band better get on it.) The end doth &#8230; <a href="http://russellshankland.com/musings/peace-corps/the-homestretch/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Craciun Fericit!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For me, 2006 passed in a flash, and my grand homecoming is rapidly approaching. During my first weeks/months in Romania, I grappled with the seeming enormity of 27 months. I missed my family, my friends and the familiar (which, being &#8230; <a href="http://russellshankland.com/musings/peace-corps/craciun-fericit/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Slaying Vampires</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2006 18:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 13 months into my Peace Corps service, I still wake up confused. Alarm blaring, I jolt upright in bed, survey my surroundings and groggily ponder, &#8220;Where in the world am I?&#8221; But, only seconds later as the sounds of &#8230; <a href="http://russellshankland.com/musings/peace-corps/11/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Still Kicking!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Romania has experienced a winter of record low temperatures. My bedroom is the only heated room in my apartment so one weekend in mid-January, I staged a movement strike, refusing to leave it. When Monday morning came, I emerged &#8230; <a href="http://russellshankland.com/musings/peace-corps/13/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Very Romanian Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Christmas Eve here or &#8220;ajunul Craciunului&#8221; as the Romanians say. They don&#8217;t make as big a fuss over Christmas Eve as we do, but the Orthodox Christmas actually lasts three days &#8211; so don&#8217;t fret, I&#8217;m not getting shortchanged. &#8230; <a href="http://russellshankland.com/musings/peace-corps/a-very-romanian-christmas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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