Happy 7th of April, notable for NOTHING. Class is officially in full swing, and between Wildflower and Peace Corps. stuff I'm swamped. I still don't know quite where I'm going yet, and I only have the faintest inkling based on some text scrawled on the exterior of my Peace Corps. file. I won't tip my hand yet, except I already told some people. We'll just have to wait and see. Brady (the recruiter) said I should know something by next week, as LA had asked for my file (which evidently is an event of importance). Last night I got to go down to SB for a dinner/Q&A session with a couple of other noms from UCSB and a slough of RPCVs (returned peace corps volunteers). It was pretty cool actually, and I got to talk with some very interesting people. The head of the LA division has quite the belt of foreign service. I believe he had 2 stints as a volunteer in Peace Corps, and then taught in JET for 3 years. He was saying he'd been to over 30 countries. The other people I talked to were equally interesting. It was nice to hear funny viginettes of life overseas, and equally nice to actually hear some un-fun things that have happened to people. The website and available literature paint a very rosy picture, but I know simply having gone to third-world countries that life isn't so peachy-keen as it is in the recruitment material. It was neat getting to actually talk to people.

I'm sure you're all sick of this Peace Corps. talk by now... seeing as my last few posts have been essentially dominated by it. In honesty it's what is weighing most of all on my mind. No doubt graduation looms ahead, and classes are here in the present. All of that seems relatively un-important though(!) Of course that doesn't mean I'm slacking off, but I'm really excited to get going on this. I've been devouring all of the propaganda the office can give me, I just finished a small (~200pg) book filled with stories of past volunteers. All of the stories are only around 3 pages, but all very cool. Of course it's only whet my apetite for more. I suppose of course that now is the most important time to practice the now rare-found value of patience while I wait. But damnit, I wanna go!