Yup…over the weekend someone jimmied my window, with a huge grill on it, and managed to pull out my laptop through the space. Nice huh? I’m not that mad, it’s just that there was 2 years of project info, pictures, stories, artwork and music on there that I failed to back up. [...]
Hi folks! I’ve been nominated for service beginning somewhere in Sub-Saharan African in September 2005. Everything’s been going so fast… I submitted my app on May 1 and now I’m working on the medical evaluations… Psyched though. Is there anyone else out there who is Africa-bound? Anyone in the Boston area who [...]
The staff at my new site are great. All the teachers except for one are women. They dont speak a lot of english so i have a feeling that either i get my language training in high speed or i’m totally screwed! But it will come eventually. I’m doing pretty good. The teachers were surprised [...]
A committed group of RPCVs in Portland, Oregon has embarked on a journey that will culminate in building a permanent Museum of the Peace Corps Experience (MPCE). It is a private organization that is not affiliated with the U. S. Peace Corps. With over 165,000 former PCVs it seems incredible that there [...]
So all PCV’s are in different towns. There are about 4-5 pcv’s in everytown. Hub is when we all get together for 2 days and have technical training about saftey, teaching, health, and various other things. We just did that monday and tuesday. It was really nice to see everyone again. We had so much fun [...]
