so after many, many months and enough phone calls to be considered borderline harrasment, I got a letter from the peace corps!! It wasn't informing me of my medical clearance like I had hoped, but they wanted to know if I had ever been vacinated against polio after the age of 18. My doctor told me I had not been vacinated for polio since I was a baby so I called the peace corps and they said to get the vacination and send them the paperwork. So my doctor had to order it from another office and they should hopefully contact me by the beginning of this week that they have it so I can send this off as soon as possible. I'm just happy to be hearing something from them. Aaron just found out he's going to kenya on may 21st I think... and I'm supposed to leave in june so theoretically I should find out soon... though, lyndsey didn't find out till like a month before she was leaving so I guess it is up to the peace corps gods as for when you get to find out!
I'm a big dork so the other day I went to the peace corps website and read the descriptions they have of all of the countries where the peace corps is currently active in africa, and I matched them with the vague description of the position I was nominated for. I was looking for a country below the sahara desert that has french as an official language, and that has peace corps volunteers who teach science and english in secondary schools. It looks like the countries with assignments that most closely match the description I was given are: Burkina Faso, Guinea, Benin, and Cameroon. I'm of course very happy with all of these countries! Burkina Faso would be awesome because it specifically said that education volunteers teach in small rural villages and I have always wanted to experience life in a rural village in Africa. Cameroon would be awesome too just because I hear that is a beautiful country, with lush rainforests on the coast and desert to the north and savanah too. Plus it would be slightly closer to aaron and lyndsey. Guinea and Benin are a little scarier because it said the science teachers teach either chemistry or physics, which I'm pretty unfamiliar with. If I teach science I assume it would be in biology since that is where about 90% of my training and interests lie, but if not thats okay I'm going to africa to be challenged and that would certainly be a challenge!
Okay well on non-peace corps news, my cat has ring worm and my dad just caught it from the cat and it looks like my mom is getting it too and ever since she said that this morning I started to feel itchy though I'm hoping its just psychological!! I don't know, living with two people and a cat with ringworm I am probably fighting a losing battle against trying to not catch ringworm, but for now I'm trying not to touch anything, I'd float above the floors if I could.
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