Waiting for Better Times in Bulgaria

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Waiting for Better Times in Bulgaria
Conor Ciaran (Author)

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Waiting for Better Times in Bulgaria OR Marilyn Monroe was our mother (JFK was the father, so who was the mother? Calpurnia asked). My name is Andrew Panagakos. I volunteered for the Peace Corps after a bizarre series of events cost me my home, land, car, retirement, savings—everything in fact—and after another series of events left me without any grants for restoration or wolf projects. In fact, volunteering was a joke first suggested by a colleague who had
a grant. He was studying Amur tigers in Siberia. I was proposing to study tiger-wolf interactions in the Bochinsky Reserve, but alas, wolves were not perceived to be as charismatic as tigers and did not attract the same level of funding. He suggested that if I could find support for my own expenses, room and board, through the Peace Corps perhaps, then the project could go on as planned. We had already met with the Russians, as well as with numerous granting agencies in Seattle and Portland. A bonus was that I would have
noncompetitive eligibility for government jobs as a biologist when I returned to the states.

So, I volunteered to serve in Siberia. The Peace Corps had a Parks program that allowed research. But, after months of paperwork, Russia was closed to new volunteers and the last two volunteers were shipped home, due to the dangers from the Russian Mafia and Chinese bandits in the area (and from a third, unspoken danger, American loggers, desperate to cut old-growth trees in Siberia). The only other country available, with wolves, was Bulgaria, so I was allowed to switch requests.

Nothing, however, happened the way I planned. I had trouble finding wolves, much less catching and tagging them. I had trouble with the language, although I had studied and used Russian. I got married and pledged my children to communism. I was mistaken for the Tsar, mostly by gypsies and old women. I was almost killed in an avalanche. I had to teach English every week. I got lost several times in the mountains and had to live on berries and water. I made more friends than I thought possible. And, then ...

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