I’ll start off by saying I am a supervisor of a group home that houses 4 residence with various developmental disabilities and mental disorders. They are all very aware of how to behave and basically have the mind capacity of 12 year old children. They range from ages 19-23 and have the tendency to get [...]

After an amazing interview and being nominated to my region of choice for my assignment of choice within a matter of days, the peace corps mailed me a huge packet of medical stuff that I am not looking forward to getting filled out. I have decided to wait until after the first of the year [...]

Dear Brianna , Thank you for confirming your assignment and letting me know that you feel this program is a good fit for you! I’ve nominated you for the following: Assignment Assignment Area: Special Education Region: Sub-Saharan Africa Tentative Date of Departure: Early October, 2011 Program Info: Special Ed/deaf education. Volunteers teach at schools for [...]

My peace corps interview was yesterday, and it went amazing. The recruiter asked me most of the questions that I had read online so I was pretty prepared. I left my house at 4am to catch a train to NYC for my 10am interview. I got to the office before 9 and nobody was there. [...]

This time tomorrow I will be in NYC for my interview with my Peace Corps recruiter! I have been waiting for this day for months, and I am extremely nervous. I work as a supervisor at my job, so I am always the one conducting the interview. I have been with my job for almost [...]

I emailed my recruiter on Friday asking if there was anything he needed from me…he responded saying he didn’t have access to the site to check my references for some reason today, but that we could go ahead and schedule my interview!!! Unfortunately the office in NYC and I’m almost 3 hours upstate, and due [...]

So after believing that I was over the peace corps thing…like a guy that doesn’t return my call, I believed that I should get over this because it’s been almost a month since I sent in my application and I sent in all the required forms in over three weeks ago. My phone just rang [...]

As time keeps ticking my dream of becoming a peace corps volunteer seems unobtainable…or at least so far in the future that I shouldn’t be worried about it. I patiently await the phone call from my recruiter to schedule an interview. It’s been 18 days since I submitted my application, almost two weeks since I [...]

I submitted my application on October 31, 2010. I mailed out all required paperwork the day after I received it… I have been patiently awaiting a call from my recruiter for an interview. So last night I get a phone call from one of my references saying she couldn’t figure out how to open the [...]

As I patiently await some sort of notification from my recruiter I find myself doubting my choice to join the peace corps…for a few reasons: 1: womanly concerns. A few years ago I had an irregular pap smear and I am scared that as a result I will not be invited. I’ve done the research [...]

Today I shared with some of my favorite co workers that I am planning to join the peace corps hoping for some support. I digress to say I work in the human service field with developmentally disabled individuals and expected these co workers to be supportive. They were shocked that someone would want to go [...]

So here are a few of my major concerns with becoming a peace corps volunteer: -little or no contact with my family and friends. The great majority of my loved ones have always been with in an hour drive (aside from Laura who moved to Georgia, but email and phone calls are possible and still [...]

I have been announcing my plans to join the peace corps. Peoples views have been quite shocking. A co worker said that America should deal with it’s own problems before it tries to solve the worlds problems. In reading multiple peace Corp blogs I realized that most volunteers feel as though they are working for [...]

So after two weeks of hard work, I finally submitted my application.  I am shocked at how long it took to complete, but hopefully it will be worth it.  I created this blog to track my experience with peace corps…(I haven’t been accepted yet or even called for an interview so this blog could go absolutely  [...]

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