Archive for March, 2008

Farewell ThirdGoal

March 31st, 2008 by ChristianandAlysia.

After a year of blogging here at Third Goal, we have decided to make the move to another blog site.  To those of you who have followed our blogs about our Peace Corps experiences in Mexico, we’ve appreciated your interest and comments.  Christian & Alysia

ACL injury two months before departure

March 28th, 2008 by jnelson.

Hello, My wife recently tore her ACL and will require surgery and rehabilitation to fix it. We were nominated to go to Burkina Faso in June 08 and now we are waiting to hear back from OMS about what will happen with us. I fear that they will make us wait an inordinate [...]

Peace Corps Wiki

March 6th, 2008 by wlerik.

I just learned that there is a new Peace Corps Wiki. I just added the first Guatemalan volunteer page: http://www.peacecorpswiki.org/Erik_W._Lang Feel free to add your own pages. (More information below.) Dear RPCV, For the first time in its almost fifty year history, the volunteers themselves are happy to announce the creation of a wiki based website dedicated to collaborative work. http://www.PeaceCorpsWiki.com/ An institutional memory of [...]

Peace Corps Week and NPCA National Day of Action

March 1st, 2008 by dece.

Peace Corps and NPCA are encouraging PCVs and RPCVs to share the third goal. The problem here is that this is really contrary to what Peace Corps and NPCA allows. NPCA’s blog will not post comments it doesn’t like. For example, it will post a negative comment about Peace Corps spying and [...]