The Long Wait

It has been 5 weeks as of yesterday that Peace Corps received my medical kit, and the only  news I've heard back is that I am dentally cleared which is good, but, I haven't heard anything else. So I'm either not missing anything which would be awesome or they haven't even started really looking at my kit yet which would suck.

As any Peace Corps nominee does I read a lot of other PC blogs and I've stumbled on a bunch of applicants who have been told with the budget cuts on the PC that a lot of departure dates are being pushed back and programs are being cut. So at this point I have pretty much resigned myself to the fact that I won't be leaving on my original nomination date and I probably won't be leaving at all in 2011. 

There are pros and cons to this, the main pro is that hopefully I could find a job and I could save up a little bit more money before I leave. But, the cons are that finding a job might be difficult to fit my timeline. Also I would really love to find a job I might actually enjoy since I'm going to be living at home with  my parents during that time and most of my friends don't live in the area so I'm going to be (and have been) quite bored. Another con is that I am just getting restless I just want to get out of here I've been thinking about the Peace Corps for so long now that I just want to get started. But, this is something I really want so I know that it will be worth the wait. 

In other news, I was listening to NPR today to the Kojo Nnamdi show because he had the Director of the PC on. It was mostly stuff I already knew or have heard before and a lot of it was on the issue of "women's safety" like a lot of the debates on the PC have been in the past months. 

In my efforts to keep my mind off the Peace Corps I went to OCean City this past Memorial Day weekend and this is me and my friends at Seacrets : )