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How I joined the Peace Corps--from Ecuador to Kyrgyzstan
Up until the age of 16, I had no idea of what I wanted to be as an adult. Then, in 1999, one event changed that and put me on an 11 year path towards serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer. This is the story of that event. I was living in Riobamba, Ecuador as a foreign exchange student. I lived with a host family in a second story apartment on a street near the town’s market. Every morning, after breakfast, I would sit on the family’s little patio outside the kitchen and drink coffee and w...
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Not in My Own Words....
I am a Nebraskan. I wanted to join the Peace Corps since I was 8. Then when I got to college I learned I had to finish college, that is what I did. I worked my way through college with Peace Corps on my mind. My Czech/Russian teacher one day started talking about me joining the military. And I looked at her, with such a strange look, as if my eyes were quoting War and Peace: " screwing up his eyes." She promised I wouldn't have to do basic training. I didn't really belive it....
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Coming of Age
Sometime toward the end of my Peace Corps service I had a revelation: being a grown-up is hard. When you're a kid, you have this idea that all your problems can be easily solved by some person you perceive to be a "grown-up." When you've got a serious problem you need help with it’s great to be on the kid side, but, as I joined the Peace Corps straight out of college, I've only recently started to experience things from the other side, and that's not so great. A friend of mine, a f...
