Offically invited!

I received my Peace Corps invitation packet today. The online toolkit said that it was mailed on the 27th, so I didn't know when I'd receive it. A week? 5 days? Nope, only two. I guess the PC gets shit done when they are in a rush.

Whose got two thumbs and is going to China in exactly two months? This guy.

The packet is thick! Three booklets, one around 90 pages, another a little slimmer, and another even slimmer; they shrink in size as they grow specific. On top of those, there are a few letters, one of welcome, one of congratulations, and then a series of documents that need to be filled out and returned in the addressed envelope included at the bottom.

I've got ten (or so) days to call the HQ and tell them I want to go. One of the letters says that the person on the other end of the phone is going to quiz me on the stuff in the thick booklet. We'll see what this brain, steeped in the hoop-jumping routine of American public education, can do with that quiz.

So, anyways, I am stoked. This will be an adventure, once I'm done wading through the paper work. What that you say? The paper work never ends? Well, at least that's another constant, on top of death and taxes.