While on vacation, I received two emails from Pam Kingpetcharat. Pam is a current Information Technology volunteer in Guyana and will be training me in the next few months. Pam has been kind enough to share many of the pleasantries and discomforts that go along with being a Peace Corps volunteer — much like I hope [...]
Shortly before departing for Hawaii, I received the following email from Rita Jimenez, the country desk officer for the South American department of the Peace Corps. — “Jimenez, Rita” wrote: From: “Jimenez, Rita” To: ‘jason@pearce.net’ CC: “Frola, Kimberly”,”Myers, Amber”, “Brown, Earl” Subject: Web site Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 16:30:10 ?0400 Hello Jason, [...]
We’ve returned safely from our Hawaiian vacation and are quite tired. The trip, however, was great. I hope to have the time to create an online summary of our trip before I depart for Guyana, but it is unlikely. There is so much to do. For starters, my personal list serve had been sending daily email [...]
Tonight I had dinner with Katherine Occhipiuti. Katherine was a Peace Corps volunteer who actually served in Georgetown, Guyana. She has been back almost two years and said that she had a wonderful experience. Someone at dad’s office is a good friend with her, which is how we made the connection. Katherine was very helpful. Patient [...]
While I may have joined the “Peace Corps,” I am the “Pearce Corps.” I can’t tell you how many times that I have mistakenly typed Pearce Corps instead of Peace Corps. But when Aileen O’Leary, a “lost” Elon friend, typed it into Google’s search engine by mistake, she found my site to be the number one [...]
