My mother and her friends went to a Peace Corps orientation and came back with a lot of documentation about the whole thing.
Has anyone here been a Peace Corp-er? What were your experiences?
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
I have a friend who wants to do this after she graduates high school.
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Your *mother* is considering joining the Peace Corp? Wow.
Posted by Dark as night (Member # 9577) on :
My best friend spent two years in Jamaica after college as a Peace Corps volunteer. She liked it. Another friend's parents (in their 60s) are in Peace Corps right now. They are having a great time.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
I went to an orientation as well and strongly considered it, but ended up volunteering short-term w/ another organization instead. Peace Corps seems like it's doing a lot of really cool stuff. Keep us posted about whether she decides to join!
Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :
I've been semi-to-seriously planning on applying for a few years. I wouldn't be able to do it for at least a few more years, but it's something I'm very interested in.
There are a couple PC communities on LiveJournal that I lurk at, and there's also a Yahoo group that I haven't checked out yet, but apparently it's even larger than the LJ ones.
Posted by Celaeno (Member # 8562) on :
I went to an orientation, but I don't think it's my thing. I'm leaning more towards LanguageCorps if anything.
Posted by Valentine014 (Member # 5981) on :
Steve, not sure if your friend knows this but, she might not be accepted without a degree. You can't just jump into the Peace Corps without the proper experience.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
A good friend of mine is going to Ghana in the summer, and plans to go into the Peace Corps after she graduates from college in a year.
She's excited about it, though the Ghana volunteer thing is going to cost her a lot of money.
Usually they expect you to have some skills, either in teaching English or engineering, I think.
Posted by Earendil18 (Member # 3180) on :
Yeah, I'm not sure if my mother is going, I got the impression she just wanted to learn about it.
Either way, I need to finish my BA if I'm going to have any sort of qualifications. An AA degree is ok, but I haven't done any sort of "teaching" in years. Not sure jumping into a classroom would be er...the best thing at this point.