Staging
So, it has officially started-- Peace Corps. None of this, "yeah I'm leaving for the PC in September" business.... I'm gone, I went. Well almost.
We (37 I think. all headed to serve in Moldova) of us arrived in Philly yesterday for a little something called Staging. Think of it as orientation, for the next 3 months of your life. And in Peace Corps terms, the next three months of our Peace Corps timeline is training, training for your actual two years of service. Quite a mouthful huh? But we have been assured over and over that we will be trained and provided to handle all situations, language, saftey and culturally speaking.
Well everyone that knows me (and you must, because why else would you be reading this?) knows how anxious I was about coming, and especially about meeting the people-- I get very shy in large groups (for those of you who know me well, you might have forgotten this...) But everyone here is extremely nice and very friendly. The volunteers have a wide range of ages and backgrounds, very very wide in fact and it is a pleasure getting to interact with people from all different walks of life.... and people who understand you almost immediately... because they too landed on this crazy thing called Peace Corps, for whatever reason it was. They don't think its crazy... or they think its crazy, but they can appreciate it. We have been hanging out in small groups and larger ones, and getting to know each other a little better-- but it has been very very overwhelming with the amount of information thrown at us. I am releived now that I have met some of my peers in the Peace Corps, and realise we are all in the same place, but I am still anxious about flying and Moldova. Day by day right? :)
We are leaving soon for Moldova where training will kick into high gear. So this might be the last you hear from me in a while!
We (37 I think. all headed to serve in Moldova) of us arrived in Philly yesterday for a little something called Staging. Think of it as orientation, for the next 3 months of your life. And in Peace Corps terms, the next three months of our Peace Corps timeline is training, training for your actual two years of service. Quite a mouthful huh? But we have been assured over and over that we will be trained and provided to handle all situations, language, saftey and culturally speaking.
Well everyone that knows me (and you must, because why else would you be reading this?) knows how anxious I was about coming, and especially about meeting the people-- I get very shy in large groups (for those of you who know me well, you might have forgotten this...) But everyone here is extremely nice and very friendly. The volunteers have a wide range of ages and backgrounds, very very wide in fact and it is a pleasure getting to interact with people from all different walks of life.... and people who understand you almost immediately... because they too landed on this crazy thing called Peace Corps, for whatever reason it was. They don't think its crazy... or they think its crazy, but they can appreciate it. We have been hanging out in small groups and larger ones, and getting to know each other a little better-- but it has been very very overwhelming with the amount of information thrown at us. I am releived now that I have met some of my peers in the Peace Corps, and realise we are all in the same place, but I am still anxious about flying and Moldova. Day by day right? :)
We are leaving soon for Moldova where training will kick into high gear. So this might be the last you hear from me in a while!
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on Monday, September 11, 2006 at 11:58 PM.
