WO goes International.

Whilst in Georgia, Aaron and I had the opportunity to take the Azerbaijan National Writing Olympics Winners' essays to the International Judging to go against Armenia, Georgia and Moldova in a fight to the death... with words, ideas, and pens as swords. We are Peace Corps, afterall.

We rolled into Peace Corps Georgia's office* and met with the WO staff of Georgia and Armenia while keeping in touch via gchat with Moldova for the judging. Our late morning/early afternoon was filled with us reading the best of the best. And, I'm happy to report that Azerbaijan kind of beasted the competition. Out of 11 titles, Azerbaijan took 5! Though, one of those 11 is a bit sketch as only Moldova has a 12th form... whatevs. 2 of those 5 Azeri winners were Mingechevir to boot! All in all, it was a successful day. Congratulations to all the winners, Azerbaijan and elsewhere. Armenia, Georgia and Moldova made for great competition and I'm sad I won't be able to witness this fabulous project expand in the future.

As mentioned in an earlier blog about WO, it truly was wild to experience this project on a whole other level. This was my last WO and I think it's safe to say it's been my favorite. It might even chalk up to being my favorite project I've worked with in country. We'll see. I do try to do a lot of cool things...

*the above picture is not of PC Georgia's office. Just a place in Baku that makes me laugh every time.