At some point in the application process, I'm pretty sure I've been asked Why, oh why, do you want to be sent halfway across the world to teach for no money at all?
That is a tough question. In reality, I am breaking, or at least putting on hold, all of the relationships I have committed to over the past (at least) five years. Nearly everything social (in the broadest spectrum) will be changed. I am willing, however, to shake up everything I know. There must be something great that is tempting me to disrupt everything I have now.
I want to serve in the Peace Corps because the experience overseas will be unlike anything I have encountered. I want to throw away all the comfortable, American assumptions that I grew up with. I want to redefine the term " A roof over my head." Screw the Hannaford, Market Basket, Shaw's grocery stores down the road. I want to learn how a different culture survives. I want to all my present opinions and assumptions to be thrown out the window.
This is the third post in under five hours. I really like this blogging thing.
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