6 months in, 21 to go…
Happy holidays everyone! Here are some thoughts that I wrote when I was at site on Dec. 10, 2019. I left Anchorage to start my journey with the Peace Corps on June 9th, 2019, six months ago yesterday. It feels like it was much longer than that but at the same time it feels like yesterday. Time is moving quickly, just as everyone told me it would. One of the difficulties volunteers often face is the daunting nature of our jobs. There is so much work to be done and so many people to work with, but where do you start? How are you going to be the most effective volunteer possible? Is the work we are doing actually making an impact? It’s easy to fall into the jaded mindset that we’re not really helping anyone, that we’re not qualified to provide real help, that the problems are structural and therefore out of our control. Something that really stuck with me during PST (pre-service training) is the metaphor that Peace Corps Volunteers are like drops of water in a r