We decided to call placement on Monday to explain our precarious job situation.  You know, the one where we won’t have a job come August because our AmeriCorps service will have ended.  Three days later, we received an e-mail from the woman we spoke to at placement.  She requested some basic updated information (resumes and [...]

We’ve been medically cleared!  I’ve heard horror stories about medical and how long and difficult the process is, so I was expecting the worst.  But it wasn’t bad at all.  In fact, I’d say it was easy compared to the months of waiting to hear about our nomination.  I was shocked that we were cleared [...]

We’ve been terrible about updating blog, but the good news is that we’ve been keeping ourselves VERY busy.  We went on our Italy trip in August and that was absolutely amazing.  Vinny has been working at the Farmworkers Association of Florida.  He recently began a radio show about issues in Apopka and is waiting to [...]

It has been far too long since our last blog. Summer has, for the most part, come and gone; we start AmeriCorps in less than a month, and we have Peace Corps updates! We had our interview back in the beginning of July. It went very well and our recruiter was a wonderful and informative [...]

So it has been about a week or so since we submitted all of our preliminary documents (marriage certificate, fingerprints, etc) to our recruiter.  He sent me an email stating that he received our materials the day after we sent it.  However, we hadn’t heard anything since and we were curious if there was anything [...]

Vinny and I received an email from our recruiter on Thursday requesting the following items: marriage certificate, transcripts, two skill addenda (one in Community Development and the other in Education), a Geo Flex Statement (because I had three regions of preference), and a couples questionnaire.  Today we also sent in our fingerprints.  Pretty exciting stuff. [...]

  So I had been thinking about the email that Ashley and I had received in regards to having to wait 3 months after we were married before we can actually submit our application.  So… today I decided to give the recruiter a call.  And low and behold… Good News Everyone!  I was told that [...]

Well, we received contact from the Peace Corps, but it wasn’t quite what we were expecting.  I checked my email last night and I had received an email from my recruiter.  Vinny received the same email.  It seems that we must wait three months after we are married until we can begin the application process, [...]

Hello! This is Vinny and Ashley Cannizzaro’s Peace Corps Blog! We decided to start a blog as we just submitted our application and health survey today.  So… we are on our way! We really wanted to start this blog so we could meet other individuals who are applying to the Peace Corps, are currently serving... Read more.