THANKFUL
Back home and cozy in my parents house for the first time in about a year, after 5 weeks of traveling South America and the last stretch of my Peace […]
Back home and cozy in my parents house for the first time in about a year, after 5 weeks of traveling South America and the last stretch of my Peace […]
It has been over a month since I left the Dominican Republic. I don’t yet feel like Ojeda is no longer my home, like I no longer live a minute […]
Before a PCV leaves country, we have exit interviews with the country director, sub director, our direct boss (mine is the head of all health volunteers). We have Spanish language […]
In the biannual magazine that PCDR distributes, we give pages upon pages to the volunteers who are heading out. To tell some of the crazy things they’ve lived through, to […]
I recently posted a picture of a little girl on my Facebook with a short but powerful conversation that we had. There was such an overwhelming response to this simple […]
As we all prepare to leave our service behind, hoping that the work we did was sustainable, and trying to fit this experience into a few lines on our resumes, […]
I’m sitting in my house in Ojeda after a week out of site. Part of that week was spent at our Close-of-Service conference where we sat through talks about how […]
Health Without Water. It can’t exist. This is a fact that we all know. A woman from Gambia walked in the Paris marathon this year to show the lengths to […]
A few months ago, in yet another Peace Corps twist, I was suddenly thrown into a project that I knew nothing about, had no plans on how to carry out, […]
It was one of my first guagua rides where I was completely alone. I was nervous that I was going to mess up the amount of money I was supposed […]