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interviews

March 17, 2012 washington state, usa

Question: I see you’ve been in the Peace Corps for the past two years. You know I once thought of applying for the Peace Corps. What I wanted to say: Great then, can I have your job? Because I actually applied, was accepted and served two years in the Peace Corps. It appears that I [...]

becoming an american african, or what peace corps didn’t tell me about re-integration

February 15, 2012 washinngton dc, usa

Peace Corps admin tries very hard to prepare their volunteers for re-entry. When the end of our service nears, they even pay for us to spend two days at a nice hotel plying us with resources to help us with re-integration. These resources are supposed to help us wrap up our service into nice little [...]

so you’re saying the peace corps roofied you?

December 20, 2011 washington state, usa

Random dude: Cool. You were in the Peace Corps! So what was that like for you? Me: Well… I’m not really sure yet. It’s like I woke up one morning and my hair was 6 inches longer, my skin was two shades darker, my body was covered in bruises and scars, I had a stomach [...]

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