Baby PCV cutting her first Spanish sarcasm teeth on some baby ducklings
Service Week Nineteen [Double-Serving of Live Baby Duck]
Service Week Eighteen [A Skinny Cow Rappel]
Sometimes voting is as easy as a skinny cow rappel
Service Week Seventeen [Fireflies in a Lightning Storm]
You know. Just some butterflies on cow patties kinda week
Service Week Sixteen [Life Outside the Inbox]
Practicing "good enough is perfect"
Service Week Fifteen [Mostly Part of my Best]
Time to kick the board
Service Week Fourteen [Two Thousand Five Minutes]
If this week's post was a speed date...
Service Week Thirteen [Nothing but Vent]
Goat cheese and grief
Service Week Twelve [All Corners of the Fishbowl]
Life from the fishbowl
Service Week Eleven [Enough Patience to Grow]
Stumbling into Wonderland
Service Week Ten [A New Resident of Perú ]
Still no idea what I am doing
Service Week Nine [Condoms in my Yogurt]
So that car wreck is done and over
Service Week Eight [All In Good… Theory]
Watch out for jungle tiger spiders featured here, left of center
Service Week Seven [Skydiving with Jellyfish]
Running straight into the jungle
Service Week Six [Would I Rather?]
Everything is still in Spanish
Service Week Five [The House with the Tree in Front]
Keeping it real: There isn't a pot of gold on this end of the rainbow.
Service Week Four [Patience is a Four-Letter Word]
Scenes from the week as well as a very creatively butchered version of the History of Peru
Service Week Three [I promised Fleener Baby Elephants]
Immersion means leaving the house and talking to strangers. A lot.
Service Week Two [Right on Schedule]
Still wondering after two weeks why I am not skinny and fluent in Spanish. What kind of rehab is this?
Service Week One [Let the Wild Rumpus Start]
You know that part in the story when Dorothy finds out all she had to do was click her ruby slippers together three times and...
Week Twelve [From PCT to PCV]
And the final verdict after three months training is...
Week Eleven [Pollada]
This week didn't make me quit. And it features a scorpion carrying a message from the gods. Also a sizable cabbage.
Week Ten [Los Contrarios]
Life hack: Hide trashy junk food everywhere. You never know what minute you'll need to use coping chocolate.
Week Nine [Nineteen Daaaays]
My mother used to say "If you don't have anything nice to say maybe shut up and not write a blog." -DMR 5/15/48
Week Eight [A Murder Mystery]
During the final week of Site Exploration four chickens and one rooster have a slumber party. It ends up with zombies.
Week Seven [Chins Up, Vest Up]
A second week of awkward blind introductions to innocent unsuspecting strangers in Oxapampa, Pasco, Perú.
Week Six [aka Funky Farm South]
In this week's episode of "Did I Really Sign Up for This?" we visit the town of Oxapampa, Peru, for Site Exploration (my site assignment for two years.)
Week Five […DRUM ROLL]
Not much happened this week. Except, you know, the next two years of our lives. Featuring: Site Assignment day.
Week Four [FFFFBT]
The week they let the hopeful-to-be volunteers into the wild and almost off-leash
Week Three [Day Twenty-Six.Ish]
That sweet-spot in pre-service training where I am confident that I am less smart and made up of 65% water, 35% potatoes and rice.
Week Two [Stuff and Things]
A few glimpses into what gets crammed into Peace Corps Perú 31 Pre-Service Training
Week One [“It’s Thursday and I’ll Cry if I Want to”]
According to the State of Alaska this blog is officially medium risk and considered a global threat to intelligent reputation. #WIN
[It’s only…] Week Zero
The first three days are the longest and count toward the sum total of week zero.
Six Months of Application
A painfully boring yet painfully detailed timeline from PC application to actual invitation
