So a new group of volunteers arrives in the country twice a year. In August the youth, business, and health volunteers arrive. In the spring there is a group of environment, education, and IT volunteers. The arrival date for the newbies is February 29th, just over a month from now. We received our invitation in the mail five weeks before our departure date. This means that all the people who will be arriving next month have already received and accepted their invitations to join Peace Corps DR.
This morning I noticed there has been a significant spike in views of our blog entries from the first year of service. I attribute this to the undoubtedly several dozen people frantically searching the Internet for clues as to what the next year might bring. (For those of you new volunteers coming in February who have found our blog, we are looking forward to having you, and reread our post from six months ago to that incoming group if you like.)
Anyway, I realized I have never read through our old blog entries from the first year, so I did so this morning. I pretty much have two options to describe the experience. I can be very succinct so as to single out the emotional impact, or I can write a long-winded evaluation of how far we have come and apparently how much we have changed. Nothing in between will suffice here.
I think all I am going to say it…wow.
Big, big smile from Kent, Washington!! Love you!
LOL