Last day before I leave for staging and I have a lot to do today which includes packing, closing accounts, taking things to storage, and 15 other things on the to-do list, so this will be a brief post. On Tuesday I sold “Alice” which was a great elation to me, a little euphoric, but [...]
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Even though I title each of my blogs with the date for future reference, I’m going to add a second title to this blog: “The Peace Corps and Blogging about the Peace Corps”. Coincidentally over the weekend, (well not coincidentally, they were both year-end updates), I received an email from wordpress recapping my year in [...]
Normally I think a little snow storm is just an inconvenience and I never really appreciate the beauty of it. Today I appreciated the beauty of it, not from a nature/majestic standpoint, because I received numerous calls and emails in regards to the sale of my 4×4 pickup truck! Yay Snow! This morning I drove [...]
While I’m procrastinating, I might as well do some movie reviews. Going back to 2009, there were two movies that I instantly thought “Oscar Winning Performance” when I saw them (in the theater) and that was Sandra Bullock in “The Blindside” and Christopher Waltz in “Inglourious Basterds”. The reason why I mention this is just [...]
12 Days to Departure! Holy Crap! Starting to get a little anxiety. Have I seen everyone I care about, have I taken care of everything I need to for the next 27+ months? If not, will I have the chance to? Lots to think about, and I wake up in the middle of the night [...]
It seems I have a lot of thoughts on my mind today and lots to journal about. These are the entries I look forward to going back an reading in a few years. 15 days from today and I am on a plane to Philly for staging. I got a nice reminder email from the [...]
I received an email from the Peace Corps late last week, it appears there is more work to do before staging and departure. The email included an attachment that was a questionnaire to help better prepare the PST staff for the individuals volunteers for training. By this questionnaire they seem to be a) already trying [...]
22 days until my flight to Philadelphia for staging. Things are moving ridiculously fast. Just finished detailing my pickup today, took the pictures, and hope to post on craigslist in he next day or two. Still have not resolved the dump truck issue and this is causing me some serious anxiety. The guy who supposedly [...]
Ugh! Less than 4 weeks to go and I feel I have so much left to do to prepare for my Peace Corps Departure, much of it out of my control. Business transition related, I think I can handle the personal side pretty well at this point It’s Monday and I feel like I need [...]
Email from Peace Corps Staging Yesterday. The rumors are true, we are all flying to Philadelphia for staging, traveling by bus at 4:45 am to NY, then flying from NY to Tokyo, then to BKK. The email advises you to immediately call SATO travel to schedule your flight. Because I am flying West Coast to [...]
As I typed the date for the title of today’s posting (as I do every time) it reminded me that today is such a historic date in our history, but does not seem to get the same attention as it did in year’s past. I wonder how long, or if it will be at all, [...]
Busy Week, can’t believe it is already Thursday morning. On Sunday, I was proactive and I had my aspiration statement hand-written, and now and I haven’t even got back to it yet. Will finish that today. Last summer I received a message from “Joe” on my blog, he finally found somebody with the same nomination [...]
Invite: CBOD, Thailand, January 2011. Yesterday I received another one of those 5 am (PST) emails notifying me of another toolkit update. This update was to let me know the PC had received my acceptance into the Peace Corps (sent the email on Wednesday afternoon before Thanksgiving, read on Friday). The toolkit update includes additional [...]
Invite: Community-Based Organizational Development, Thailand, January 2011 I spent the last couple days sifting through all my invite material from my packet in addition to the online welcome book. The online welcome book was informative as well as my assignment description, but the whole thing is very ambiguous and definitely sounds like the CBOD program [...]
Nomination: Business Advising, Asia, January 2011. Invite: Community-Based Organizational Development (CBOD), Thailand, January 10th, 2011. So there it is. Since my mailing address is at a UPS store, I received an email this morning that a package had arrived with the tracking number included. I went to UPS.com to see where the package originated, and [...]
Nomination: Business Advising, Asia, January 2011 My invite was sent on Friday, November 12th and was to take 5-7 business days, I actually thought that they communicated that length of time just to be on the safe side and I actually started expecting it on Tuesday. As of Saturday’s mail, still nothing has arrived and [...]
Nomination: Business Advising, Asia, January 2011. The Peace Corps Office said my invite was in the mail last Friday and to expect it in 5-7 business days. Today was business day 4 (counting last Friday), so I hope tomorrow. Today is/was my brother and sisters birthday. Will be hanging with the whole family on Saturday. [...]
Nomination: Business Advising, Asia, January 2011. So even though I’ve received an email and an update to my toolkit (last Friday), nothing has yet to appear in the mail, I guess I still have the RAS, but wouldn’t it be nice if an applicant received tracking information on their official invite packet? I am almost [...]
Nomination: Business Advising, Asia, January 2011. So today I wonder to even bother going to my P.O. Box to check for the invite pack. I doubt it could be there yet, but I’ve had lots to contemplate now that my invite seems like it is going to happen. The visualization of me living abroad for [...]
Nomination: Business Advising, Asia, January 2011 So there it is! I actually received an email from my Placement Officer earlier in the day stating that my invite was in the mail. Rather than all these emotions I thought I would have, there is a nice quiet, calmness to me right now. Strangely my biggest concern [...]
Nomination: Business Advising, Asia, January 2011. Nothing’s changed there. I just tried doing a blog from my wordpress app for the first time and lost everything so I have to start over again, I think I hit the limit on words, but didn’t even save a draft, so a “head’s up” to anybody that reads [...]
Again no news from Peace Corps, finding a tough time to sleep knowing I could get an email in the middle of the night and now I find I am reading the “applicant” section even more diligently than I ever was…looking for similar situations as mine. Wouldn’t it be nice if every applicant blog started [...]
Yesterday I received a short email from my Placement Officer simply saying “thank you” in response to my response that I could ride a bike 7-10 miles/day. I thought for sure I would be getting an email at 2:15 a.m. informing me my toolkit has been updated. I actually was up at that time and [...]
I guess I’ll just start with some Peace Corps news. I received an email Friday afternoon from my Placement Specialist and she said she had just one follow-up question for me. It was the same question my recruiter asked me last February when she called to tell my my nomination and that was….”can you handle [...]
I woke up this morning to an email from the Peace Corps: “Peace Corps has updated your Application Status account” Clicked on my frequently used bookmark “Peace Corps, My Toolkit” to see if there was some great message saying my invite was in the mail or something similar shown. Scrolling to the bottom under dental, [...]
Well, today is the day I thought by now I would for sure would know what I would be doing for the next 2 1/2 years, but I still have not received an official invite from the Peace Corps. i called the placement specialist assistant today and she was super nice and simply told me [...]
Just finished watching game 1 of the 2010 World Series. Not quite the pitching duel (Cliff Lee vs. Tim Lincecum) it was supposed to be with a final score of 11-7. Giants dominated more than the score shows and a little bummed the Rangers didn’t win. I still think Josh Hamilton will rise to the [...]
Just I thought, after I left for my weekend trip to Anchorage I received an email from the Peace Corps placement office. The email was from a “Placement and Assessment Assistant” basically telling me my application is under review and is requesting an updated resume and to include any changes since my first application, and [...]
So it’s officially past midweek and nothing from Peace Corps. I guess I’ll check when I get back from AK Sunday night. So right now is game 5 of Yankees vs. Rangers and the Yankees should feel lucky they didn’t get swept (1 lucky inning in game 1 saved them). I’ve never watched a playoff [...]
So I decided to call the placement office earlier than planned last week “to make sure they have everything they need”, the placement officer was very friendly (must be tough to stay pleasant when you have so many impatient applicants constantly calling) and she put me on hold while reviewing my file. After a couple [...]
I had a dream last night, no it was more of a premonition that when i woke up this morning, I would grab my iTouch from bed, check my emails and there would be a toolkit update saying “an invitation is in the mail”. Well, I woke up, checked my email, and there was no [...]
It’s officially fall in the Pacific Northwest, and it rained hard all Saturday. 5″ in some places. I was up Highway 2 in Baring at our old friend’s cabin for the annual memorial poker party. 11 in all showed up, so it was a lower than normal turnout, but a good group and we always [...]
I have no Peace Corps news to report, so I’ll just blog some things on my mind. Tomorrow I’m running a little 5k to benefit HIV/Aids awareness, then headed up to Skykomish (actually Baring) for our annual memorial poker tournament for our friend Donn that passed away in 2003 from a diabetes related traffic accident. [...]
Tick, Tick, the clock is ticking. I’m just wondering when I will now hear something from placement. Strangely I’ve seen a couple PC blog posts saying their January 2011 Asia nomination has been moved to March 2011 and somewhere else. Hmmmm, will I be included in that group? I’ve started to get used to the [...]
Now the waiting game begins, “Legal – There are no legal holds on your account at this time.” Woohoo! We’ve got an all clear…
A quick update…I just spoke to my placement specialist (I called him per our conversation last week), he said he briefly reviewed file last Thursday and today he was going to review it and by end of day today he will either remove the Legal Hold or ask for additional information. I’m anticipating the Legal [...]
So I called the Peace Corps and reached the placement specialist who requested paperwork confirming the sale of my house and financial obligations in regards to my Legal Hold. As I stated in this blog before, around the end of August I emailed him 9 pages, and the following week when I returned from my [...]
Well, it’s been over a week since my last post, but not much to report in regards to Peace Corps. I am calling the Placement Specialist tomorrow, I know that only gives him 1 day back from his 3 week vacation, but I really want to get the Legal clearance taken care of. I have [...]
So on August 30th I received the email requesting the documentation for the sale of my home for Legal Clearance. As I said, I was going to call in to confirm the receipt of such documents. It turns out my the Placement Eligibility Specialist who requested the documents is on vacation from September 1st – [...]
A leisurely weekend. Since I got back from Maui it’s taken me a little time to get back into the groove of things, so I thought meeting with my brother this morning might help and we had a good “Roles and Responsibilities” conversation prior to the Seahawks game. I’m not a big fan of football [...]
So as I was driving home from the airport in the rain with the temperature in the upper 50′s, I was thinking how surreal it was to think just a few hours earlier that day I was playing disc golf in Kapalua and swimming at the hotel pool in Kaanapali. What a great trip! I [...]
So this morning I finally received an email from the Peace Corps today in regards to my Legal Clearance. It appears they simply needed me to send them documentation of the sale of my house and that I no longer have financial obligations to the mortgage from the time I applied back in January. I [...]
So it’s been almost two weeks since my last post and nothing to report in regards to Peace Corps. I did have a long conversation with close friends while up at Entiat in regards to the motivation behind joining. I guess some who are motivated strictly by money, or have family or career commitments either [...]
Nothing to post in regards to Peace Corps and social and business life pretty quiet this week. This weekend headed up to Entiat for an annual get together with friends, actually golfing in Wenatchee Saturday for what seems to be my obligatory once every couple years of crappy golf to remind me why I don’t [...]
Well, after a nice weekend after last week’s fiasco (well, not really a fiasco, we completed the job and got paid) I spent today in the office getting caught up on everything. After lunch I got a wold hair and decided to call the Peace Corps office since I’ve been medically and dentally cleared, but [...]
No Peace Corps news, so if you are bored with my other postings, I apologize in advance for my dull writing journals. Sooooo, Wednesday morning the plan was to sump pump out the water and access the main sewer line. After 15 minutes of pumping it was clear that this was not going to do [...]
Got the letter from the Peace Corps, MEDICALLY CLEARED!!!!! I feel bad the pas two weeks have been so overwhelming with the business that I haven’t had time to do any volunteer work. What’s especially harsh about that is I know this summer the food bank is extremely low on volunteers, so I hope the [...]
Took a little vacation to visit friends in Lake Chelan, although short it was very relaxing and hot (I think it hit 100). I woke up just before the sunrise on Sunday, grabbed a paddleboard and tried the sport for the first time. It was great to be out on the water watching the sunrise [...]
So no news on the Peace Corps Application front, but as I had to order a new debit card today (what do I do that makes those magnetic strips go out so fast?) I got to thinking about some of the things I need to take care of in the next 6 months prior to [...]
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