I'm Coming Home

...But not quite yet. I recently returned from my COS Conference, and it looks like my COS date will be May 6. That means I'll be touching down in the States a few days after. This post won't be long. I got some stuff to wrap up, including the last of the law school applications and my DOS (Peace Corps jargon for "a 2-page write-up on what I did while they were paying me." At the conference, we were asked a series of questions, and while I want to take a couple days to think of them, I think they'd make for an interesting series of posts. So, over the next couple weeks, loo for me to answer the following:

• What I liked best
• My funniest moment
• I'd like people in my community to remember me for
• Souvenir I'd like to take back to America
• Something I learned
• Something I'd like to forget
• Something I'll never forget
• People who have been special to me
• I wish I had more time for
• My biggest accomplishment

Some of these will obviously be longer than others, and some I may expand on the original questions for. I love my town, I've really enjoyed my service, and feel like it's really deserving of major reflection.

Peace Corps Namibia Group 37

Oh Alicia, too ridiculous not to share

Like a good Namibian, I only did this Peace Corps thing for the certificate

Our gift for the office. See if you can spot Africa, Namibia, and the stars and bird from the Peace Corps logo

Look Good and Help PCVs Do Good

Not a long post. For those of you interested in helping support PCV projects, the Atlanta RPCV group is once again selling these awesome shirts (I can be seen wearing mine in some photos on Facebook). Your purchase will help fund PCPP grants so that volunteers can take awesome project ideas and turn them into awesome projects. Sure, you could just donate to a country's PCPP grant fund, or look through the website and fund projects directly. On the other hand, these shirts are pretty awesome, and will help raise awareness. And, for those parents/siblings/other relatives/friends of PCVs, I can promise you that your volunteer could always use another shirt without holes in it, and they'd make nice "welcome home" gifts when they COS. Plus, they're US$15 (or, roughly half of my monthly beer budget...I mean, "discretionary spending during Chelsea matches" budget).

  Oh, on a related note, my COS conference is at the end of this month, so I'll have a better idea then of when you all will get to see my ugly face in person again.

Okay, !Gai tsesa u ha re, folks.