I found this list via Del.icio.us, it has recommendations for a lot of Peace Corps countries. Here in Guyana we started our own list, we thought it would be helpful to add to the list we were given before staging. Someone needs to get a wiki running with all this info.
I met this Frenchman living in La Guyane while I was serving in Guyana. He was pretty cool but didn’t speak very much english…anyway he wrote me (again) in French of course…here is the original: Après avoir attendu trois jours deux nuits au port, on a enfin décollé, enfin façon de parler… On est arrivé à [...]
Forgot to mention, I also added a Translate feature to the site’s sidebar, thanks to a little plugin developed by Scott Hough. Click on a flag/target-language and Google’s translation engine or AltaVista’s Babel Fish will conduct a machine-translated version of the page you are reading. Though it’s no replacement for good a linguist, it should make Third [...]
I made a few enhancements to Third Goal this weekend. Pictures Third Goal’s Peace Corps group on Flickr contains nearly 1,500 photos posted by 20 members. A random selection of those photos now appears in the sidebar of the site and at the bottom of each individual post. Anyone may add photos, so [...]
(via WashingtonPost.com) Regarding Alan Cooperman’s Aug. 2 Federal Page article, “Peace Corps Option for Military Recruits Sparks Concern”: The Peace Corps is on a collision course with American foreign policy. As a parent of a Peace Corps volunteer who is leaving on assignment shortly, I believe this merging of the Peace Corps and military recruitment may have [...]
