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Guineagogy: For the Bored...
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Ongoing correspondence with a Central Indiana elementary school class. Kevin Marathon's for Kids. Follows me as I trained for the 2009 Indianapolis Mini-Marathon while raising money for College Mentors, a Midwest-based nonprofit. Collections of photos tracking adventures in Western Africa, Peru, and Costa Rica. I said, YouTube. To make a donation to La Casa Hogar de los Gorriones, the orphanage where I served in Peru. Peace Corps Journals - A huge index of volunteer blogs from all over the world. Andrew,...
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Application Time Line | Historias de Veintisiete
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We’ll update this as we progress through the arduous application process. Hopefully if any others seeking to be PCVs find this site, this page will help them get a feel for the process. Step 1: Begin application. September 28, 2009. Step 2: Turn in completed application (with references) and health assessment. November 24th, 2009. Step 3: Receive background check packet. November 30, 2009. Step 4: Receive e-mail from recruiter with more paperwork and descriptions of possible job placements! March 8, 2010.
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Guineagogy: October 2011
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Sunday, October 30, 2011. Hunker down. Put on the coffee. This ain't no Post-It note. I really do miss engineering. There’s no shortage of challenging problems to solve here in Costa Rica, but I do miss the science. I miss the aggregate collecting of knowledge (here both knowledge and progress can slip away like sand through a sieve). What was really missing before was the X. In, “I’m ready to dedicate myself to X. The breadth of these experiences has given me a deep appreciation of the connectedness of ...