Publisher's Synopsis
"As a single young woman in 1966, the idea of joining the Peace Corps for Cynthia Mosca seemed like a great adventure - and was. Letters from a Wondrous Empire chronicles this experience through a collection of the correspondences the author sent home to her aunt and friend Barb while serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ethiopia. Although the training program was stressful from the beginning and ended traumatically in what today would be called "date rape," Cindy was determined to fulfill her commitment to teach in Ethiopia. Assigned to the town of Woldia (now called Weldiya), her heart was quickly stolen by highly motivated students. While challenging at times, life in Woldia was not all seriousness. She loved the craziness that came with the small town, like getting off a bus and carrying the live turkey for Christmas dinner down the main street, feeling sorry for what was about to happen to him, as he pooped down the side of her tr
