Application In!

This post is a little late, but as of March 2nd my letters of rec. were finally completed (thank you to all who helped!!), I filled out the quick health survey, edited and retouched my essays to my satisfaction and turned in my application!!!!! Yea!!  I've only been waiting to do this pretty much my entire life and actively trying to do this for the past 2 months.  But I'm not in just yet.  I have to interview, next Wednesday 3/26, and then I find out whether I'm nominated to serve.  

For some reason I'm a little nervous about the interview.  Even though I think I'm as good as in right now, a small part of me is harboring the fear that they will find something about me that's unsuitable for the Peace Corps.  But that's bullocks, I'm great at interviews, especially when it's for something that I desperately want.  Besides the Peace Corps placement officer, Damian, said that if I wanted to leave by September he could make that happen, as if I am already good to go and this interview is just another hoop that one must jump through in order to serve.  We shall see!

Two Down, One to Go!!

I'm so glad I trusted my instincts and asked another friend to write me a letter of rec. as a back up for my other delinquent friend who has been taking her sweet time with hers (over a month!). So now I'm just waiting on my boss who had promised to have it done by this past Friday, and if she had kept her promise I would have been able to send in the app today. But....deep breath...oh well. It will be done next week. I will make sure of that. The fear of feeling like a pest has past and I am prepared to do some serious bugging-the-shit out of her this week.

Ok, This is For Real This Time

Sure a year has gone by since I first started to fill out the PC application, but although my devotion to completing the paper work waned, my interest in volunteering never did. Really. Life has a way of sweeping you away and it's very easy to get caught up in living your current life and forget about planning for your future endeavors. And sometimes that's a good thing. My brother just got married, I got offered to take a trip to Israel, and I've had some family members come and visit me in New York. If I had applied last year I probably would have been out of the country and missed out on these awesome things.

This time around my devotion is strong, as I am tiring of my office job and really have no desire to look for a better paying job. I'm starting to feel claustrophobic, as will happen with me, and I need to get out the country and do something brand new before my natural mild psychosis becomes a full blown case certifiable craziness. That being said, I am trying to keep my cool while the people I ask to write my letters of rec. are taking their sweet time. Seriously it's been a month, is it that difficult to write something nice about me? Meanwhile the one that knew me the least wrote his letter in two days, go figure. But I will bide my time studying the world map on my wall and reading the blogs of other PC volunteers. Hopefully (before) this time next year I will living and working abroad!

Attempting to sign away 27 months of my life.

I'm applying for the Peace Corps. I have actually been trying to apply for for about a month, but have gotten lazy writing my essays and following up on letters of rec. And unfortunately one of my letters is kind of lame. A former boss of a supervisor (who had moved, as seems to be the trend with my old employers) seriously wrote three short sentences about me more or less saying that I'm friendly and have a positive attitude. Thanks.

But these are important qualities and maybe the short pep-talk of a note will be sufficient enough to spark the interest of the recruiters. Thankfully my other letters will be (SHOULD be) much much better.