Wow I am absolutely horrible at updating this blog. To update you all on a few things. I received my invitation on monday!! Happy President's Day to me!!! The wednesday before (on the 16th) I had to much anticipated email from my PO. All she wanted to know more about was my parents not wanting me to join. I told her they still don't want me to join but it's because they are scared and don't want the baby of the house (mind you i'm 25 years old) to finally leave the nest. I also told her about what I have done to inform them about being a PC. I have met a few PCV's through friends. My neighbors nephew is in Ghana right now so we have reached out to him to see what it's like. So I submitted that about 2pm on thursday and at 430pm (while I was at work of course) she emailed me back thanking me for my response and told me she issued my invitation packet that day. She said she thinks I will be very excited and happy with my assignment (which I am), and that I will be a great asset to the program. Woo-hoo. That makes me happy because I was worried about not having enough work experience. I even told her if I didn't get a job now I would go to grad school and build up my resume, then reapply.
Of course I had to wait all weekend to get that packet. To all you restless applicants out there....the wait for the invite is the most anxious part of the process. I was so restless. I swore every car that came down the road was going to be the UPS truck. Finally the packet came monday just after I left the house to go pay a bill and hang out with a friend for a few hours. When I got home it was sitting on my bed. I opened it to see the name Liberia highlighted. So there it is. I'll be heading to Liberia on June 10th. Staging dates are the 8th and 9th. Pre-service training is June 10th - August 2011. Service dates are August 2011 to 2013. And i'll be teaching science. My invitation is exactly what my nomination was! Science Teacher/Africa/June.
I was reading through some of the stuff they provided and had my fist experience of nervousness. It was a "damn this is really happening" moment. But I'm am getting more and more excited as I read about Liberia and read current volunteers' blogs. I know I will be just fine over there. I'll be in the 2nd group to go back to Liberia since the war ended, which is very exciting. Liberia definitely needs and deserves the help. They've come through so much.
exciting! i will be above you in sierra leone!
ReplyDeleteGood morning how are you?
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because trough them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately it’s impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this I would ask you one small favor:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Liberia? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Liberia in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Calle Valencia,39
28903 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely
Emilio Fernandez