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,…
World Trip Round-Up Part 3: Top Three
In addition to the statistics for our trip and answers to the standard questions I ask in each round-up, I thought it would be fun to put together a “Top Three” list of our favorites (and a few not-so-favorites!). Jon…
World Trip Round-Up Part 2: Q&A
As with all of our country round-up posts, we have answered the same questions that we normally do, but this time about our entire trip. We always answer these separately so that we can’t steal each other’s answers, but it’s…
World Trip Round-Up Part 1: Statistics
Days: 311. We departed from Bay City, MI on August 6, 2016 and returned on June 13, 2017. Countries: 16. USA, Mexico, Belize, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Cities: 82.…