This is a series in which I describe a typical Tuesday during our Peace Corps service. This will give you an idea of what we do on an average day – sometimes exciting and sometimes mundane. Tuesday, September 18, 2018:…
Travel Day: Philadelphia, USA to Harhoura, Morocco (September 11, 2018)
I left off in the previous post with the conclusion of our staging day in Philadelphia. Despite getting just three hours’ sleep the previous night (I woke up at 3:30am to leave Bay City), we loaded the buses at 11:30pm…
Staging Day
For any Peace Corps program, the group of invitees will gather in a city within the USA for a “staging” day. The purpose of this day appears to serve two goals: one is to gather everyone ahead of time so…
Applying to the Peace Corps: Invitee Tasks
This is part of a series in which I’ll describe our experience applying to the Peace Corps. It took 17 months from our initial contact with a recruiter to when we departed and there was a multitude of tasks involved,…
Applying to the Peace Corps: Legal and Medical Clearance
This is part of a series in which I’ll describe our experience applying to the Peace Corps. It took 17 months from our initial contact with a recruiter to when we departed and there was a multitude of tasks involved,…
Applying to the Peace Corps: Application and Interviews
This is part of a series in which I’ll describe our experience applying to the Peace Corps. It took 17 months from our initial contact with a recruiter to when we departed and there was a multitude of tasks involved,…
Applying to the Peace Corps: Timeline
This is part of a series in which I’ll describe our experience applying to the Peace Corps. It took 17 months from our initial contact with a recruiter to when we departed and there was a multitude of tasks involved,…
What to Do in Paris on Your Second (or Seventh!) Visit
This is a long list so put on your beret, pour a glass of wine, and get comfortable! So you’ve been to Paris before. You’ve climbed the Eiffel Tower, waved at the Mona Lisa, and drank some wine. You fell…
How Did You Get That Name?
While waiting to find out if we were accepted into the Peace Corps, and after leaving Dinosaur National Monument, Jon and I needed somewhere to go. Having run out of the savings we had for travel, we needed to settle…
River Rafting Down the Green River
One of the perks of volunteering at Dinosaur National Monument was the opportunity to go river rafting with the rangers down the Green River. Jon and I jumped at this chance, as normally it costs around $1,000 per person to…