So it occurs to me that I might not have actually posted here that I've been accepted in the Peace Corps. Not only that, but I'm actually starting quite soon. On Monday, I'm flying to San Francisco for Staging (wherein they follow up on any shots we might lack and then teach us what not to do if we want to avoid international incidents. Also, I ( Read more... )

I've been recommended for an assignment!  The brief skinny:

Departure date: January 2007
Region: Asia (currently includes Bangladesh, China, Mongolia, the Philippines, and Thailand)
Description of work: Work in a rural government office on capacity building; working on IT improvement; help officials with English; develop small business networks; work ( Read more... )

I wrote on the 30th that I had never felt a specific calling. It's been weighing on my mind since then that I wasn't quite being truthful. I did have a moment once when I felt distinctly called.

When I was 18 and just on the verge of graduating high school, I was the secretary of the South Indiana Conference Board of Youth Ministries. As such, ( Read more... )

Sorry for being so yemeless with letting my journal go so long between updates these days. It's been an eventful week, with a zaftig new intern at work, a day without my keys, an evanescent conversation with an old friend, a project feeding the tatterdemalion and noisome poor of Chicago, and the final submission of my Peace Corps application. ( Read more... )