Another Monday meant another dinner at Mely’s last night.
Yesterday while my sims were running, I surfed the Peace Corps website, inspired by Jen‘s friend Rosa who has just started her 2-year stint in the Dominican Republic. It made me want to join so that I could travel to another country and learn another language and do something with people. I know you don’t get a whole lot of choice over where you go, what you do, or when you leave…but if you get any say, I think I’d request the Caribbean or South America.
Anyway, this lead to multiple “so I hear you’re joining the Peace Corps!” moments at dinner. This is how rumors get started, people. One moment you’re surfing a website, and a few hours later you’re unknowingly about to move to Kazakhstan.
I would want to go to South America too. THe problem is that in order to go you have to be extremely fluent in Spanish. Since so many people speak Spanish, it’s highly competitive. I actually applied to the Peace Corps (and dropped out before the interview stage after I got NSF) and had decided I’d like to go to Mongolia or someplace like that instead. Anyway, Rosa is my second friend to join the Peace Corps. It’s very doable. I’ve decided I’ll join after I get married, because that’s the only way you can take someone with you!
Yeah, I agree that it would be really nice to be able to take someone with me. Too bad you can’t join with a friend. I didn’t realize South America was so competitive — my reason for wanting to go there is partly because I’d really like to learn more Spanish. Hmm.
Well, you aren’t leaving or applying tomorrow, so you could start studying now, and who knows, if you had some other special skill they needed you might get selected.