http://www.thirdgoal.com Peace Corps Stories and Photos Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:48:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The article is here. I thought that they should have at least offered him choice of assignments world wide. PC is supposed to be liable for diseases caught during service for life, but it doesn't sound like they are paying. Yes, the house just passed the 50 billion ... http://www.thirdgoal.com/dece/2008/04/21/peace-corps-fires-aids-positive-pcv/ 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 http://www.thirdgoal.com/christianandalysia/2008/03/31/farewell-thirdgoal/ 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 ... http://www.thirdgoal.com/jnelson/2008/03/28/acl-injury-two-months-before-departure/ 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 ... http://www.thirdgoal.com/wlerik/2008/03/06/peace-corps-wiki/ 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 ... http://www.thirdgoal.com/dece/2008/03/01/peace-corps-week-and-npca-national-day-of-action/