Monday, May 30, 2011
INVITATION!
The wait is over! I can’t believe the moment we have been waiting for since August FINALLY came. Chris and I received our invitation on Wednesday evening. We have been invited to serve in Mozambique leaving on September 28th as teachers in English (me) and Math (Chris). It took a day or so to get over the initial shock of the country. We both had ideas about where we would be going and researched a lot of places, but Mozambique was never really on our radar.
Friday, May 20, 2011
INVITED to Serve in the Peace Corps
We are elated. Our PO said she would get back to us by the end of this week, but once noon on Friday (today) came around, we were sure it wasn’t going to happen. Well, she surprised us around 2:30 when she sent an email saying the following:
Christopher and Laurie,
It was a pleasure speaking with you earlier this week. I am happy to inform you that I have qualified you to receive an invitation, and identified a program for you. Congratulations for completing the final phase of the application process.
The details -
Assignment: Math Teaching and English Teaching
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa (not a French speaking country but your language prep will come in handy!)
Departure: September 27
In preparation for these assignments I would recommend that you both look into tutoring/teaching options in your respective content areas, ideally with high school students or adults. When you receive the invitation you’ll get a better idea of what to expect.
You should receive the invitation in 5 – 7 business days. Please let me know if you have any additional questions about Peace Corps service.
I immediately welled up with tears of joy. This is it. It is really and truly happening. Next post=Where we are going. Wow.
Christopher and Laurie,
It was a pleasure speaking with you earlier this week. I am happy to inform you that I have qualified you to receive an invitation, and identified a program for you. Congratulations for completing the final phase of the application process.
The details -
Assignment: Math Teaching and English Teaching
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa (not a French speaking country but your language prep will come in handy!)
Departure: September 27
In preparation for these assignments I would recommend that you both look into tutoring/teaching options in your respective content areas, ideally with high school students or adults. When you receive the invitation you’ll get a better idea of what to expect.
You should receive the invitation in 5 – 7 business days. Please let me know if you have any additional questions about Peace Corps service.
I immediately welled up with tears of joy. This is it. It is really and truly happening. Next post=Where we are going. Wow.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Placement Email
Things have certainly changed. We received an email from our placement officer today asking us to schedule a time to chat. Lucky for us, we both had taken today off since we were driving back home from Pittsburgh for Chris’ marathon. So we set up a time to call her in the afternoon. We printed out the millions of questions we had been asked to answer on paper throughout this process (the recruiter’s interview questions, the couples questionnaire, our essays from the application, etc.) and read over all to get our heads in the game.
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