Okay so I've been reading so many peace corps blogs lately that I decided I wanted a peace corps blog too! My current blog isn't really a pc blog, its just a recounting the details of my boring life blog.
Anyway, right now I'm FINALLY almost finished with the dreaded medical packet horray!! If you've never had to deal with a peace corps med packet, first of all, I hate you, second of all, its very long and tedious and in my opinion entirely unecesary. At least parts are. For instance, I, for reasons I can't understand at this point, told them on my application that I talked to a counselor. By that, I meant, on only two days I talked to a counselor about some stress I had been having cause I figured that's what they're there for, right? After two meetings, I got a job at petco which interfered so I stopped going and haven't had issues since (well, not too many). So with this information, the pc makes me fill out the same forms I would have to fill out if I had been hospitalized for being criminally insane! I had to go to a meeting with a therapist, they had to get my file and fill out all this paperwork and ask me all these questions and I had to write a personal statement and my therapist had to write a statement and it was all very stupid.
Note to the wise: if you're going to apply to the peace corps, tell them only what's significant, if you're honest about little things, they'll punish you big time.