Hi All!
I got this far! I've met a few of my fellow PCVTs, we went out to dinner last night and had a great walk/chat along the way. Training starts at 1 PM so I'm getting some sight seeing in with the girls I met last night and I'll update you all after some things start to happen.
I love and miss you all!
Showing posts with label peace corps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peace corps. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
Good News!!
Today was a day filled with good news from the Peace Corps!
First, this morning I called the PC travel agency and got my flight info settled. I'm leaving on the 21st at about noon and arriving in Philadelphia at around 10 PM, with a stopover in Nashville. All of that makes it seem like it's really real and is really going to happen.
The next bit of excitement was that I will not be delayed because of my Hypothyroid! Yay! I do have to make sure to have it checked out once I've been in Benin for about 2 weeks (which will be two months after I started taking the medication, so it's really just a check-up), but I won't be delayed! Yay!
Really the one down point in my day was that I started packing in earnest, so my room now looks like an alcoholic lives here due to all of the liqueur boxes piled high (they do make the best packing boxes though!- so good and sturdy!). And now that I have my flight info I can pretty safely say that I can take my guitar with me to Benin without too much of a problem, although Delta did say to have it in a hard case, which worries me... Oh well, I guess there is always something to fret over!
One more week in my Seattle apartment :( I sure will miss it, from Babar upstairs to the drunks in the alley, but especially I will miss my roommate Marie and my half-roommate Andrew! And maybe my super-huge closet too!
First, this morning I called the PC travel agency and got my flight info settled. I'm leaving on the 21st at about noon and arriving in Philadelphia at around 10 PM, with a stopover in Nashville. All of that makes it seem like it's really real and is really going to happen.
The next bit of excitement was that I will not be delayed because of my Hypothyroid! Yay! I do have to make sure to have it checked out once I've been in Benin for about 2 weeks (which will be two months after I started taking the medication, so it's really just a check-up), but I won't be delayed! Yay!
Really the one down point in my day was that I started packing in earnest, so my room now looks like an alcoholic lives here due to all of the liqueur boxes piled high (they do make the best packing boxes though!- so good and sturdy!). And now that I have my flight info I can pretty safely say that I can take my guitar with me to Benin without too much of a problem, although Delta did say to have it in a hard case, which worries me... Oh well, I guess there is always something to fret over!
One more week in my Seattle apartment :( I sure will miss it, from Babar upstairs to the drunks in the alley, but especially I will miss my roommate Marie and my half-roommate Andrew! And maybe my super-huge closet too!
Saturday, June 20, 2009
30 DAYS!!
So as of today I have 30 days (and a few hours) until I leave for Benin.
I thought you might all like an update...
First, the last day of school was yesterday. I met this particular milestone with both excitement and sadness. While I have been subbing in Seattle Public Schools since October, I have been at mostly Thurgood Marshall Elementary since the beginning of the year, working in two different rooms of Autistic boys. Over the past few months I have grown really attached to both the staff and the students and I will really miss it; however, I can hardly wait for my Peace Corps assignment to begin.
Excitingly, I got my staging information on Wednesday! Unfortunately, because I was still working and the PC travel agency is on the East Coast, I haven't made my exact travel arrangements yet, but I will on Monday! When I think of this I begin to think that this is really going to happen. Yay!
Depressingly, I think I might get delayed. I recently got a physical done to be on the safe side before I leave and the Doc discovered that I have a Hypotyroid (sp?) which should really not be a big deal (the pharmacist told me that the side effect for an overdose of the medication is "jitteryness"- yep, it's that serious...) but because I'm leaving so soon and the PC likes you to be on any new medication for 3 months before you go, it's a problem. Hopefully it will all work out, but in the meantime my palms have broken out in hives from the combined stress of this and some family stuff as well. I WANT TO GO TO BENIN!!!! NOW!!!
In the meantime I am going to try and see everyone before I (fingers-crossed) leave. I got to Spokane for my friend Anna's wedding (which was a blast) but I would like to get over for a week or so and see everyone now that I am on vacation, but it will really have to wait until I my Seattle apartment is pretty much packed up to go. So if anyone reading it is driving the ol' 90 cross-state let me know. I'm also moving to Port Townsend at the beginning of July, so come and visit me!
Tata for now!
Glenna
I thought you might all like an update...
First, the last day of school was yesterday. I met this particular milestone with both excitement and sadness. While I have been subbing in Seattle Public Schools since October, I have been at mostly Thurgood Marshall Elementary since the beginning of the year, working in two different rooms of Autistic boys. Over the past few months I have grown really attached to both the staff and the students and I will really miss it; however, I can hardly wait for my Peace Corps assignment to begin.
Excitingly, I got my staging information on Wednesday! Unfortunately, because I was still working and the PC travel agency is on the East Coast, I haven't made my exact travel arrangements yet, but I will on Monday! When I think of this I begin to think that this is really going to happen. Yay!
Depressingly, I think I might get delayed. I recently got a physical done to be on the safe side before I leave and the Doc discovered that I have a Hypotyroid (sp?) which should really not be a big deal (the pharmacist told me that the side effect for an overdose of the medication is "jitteryness"- yep, it's that serious...) but because I'm leaving so soon and the PC likes you to be on any new medication for 3 months before you go, it's a problem. Hopefully it will all work out, but in the meantime my palms have broken out in hives from the combined stress of this and some family stuff as well. I WANT TO GO TO BENIN!!!! NOW!!!
In the meantime I am going to try and see everyone before I (fingers-crossed) leave. I got to Spokane for my friend Anna's wedding (which was a blast) but I would like to get over for a week or so and see everyone now that I am on vacation, but it will really have to wait until I my Seattle apartment is pretty much packed up to go. So if anyone reading it is driving the ol' 90 cross-state let me know. I'm also moving to Port Townsend at the beginning of July, so come and visit me!
Tata for now!
Glenna
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Happy Easter!
I'm at home, in Port Townsend for the holiday this weekend and I am glad that once again the weather forecasters were wrong once again. It's beautiful outside! The sky just has the wispy remnants of clouds and the sea is its azure deep blue. The wind is cool, but not so cool as to cool the sun's rays overmuch and my soul aches for the beauty of it. My surroundings are perhaps more heightened by the fact that I know I will be leaving soon and that I will long for this glorious panorama. Even more piqued is the fact that I am cherishing every moment that I can spend here with my family. Cooking and singing along to classic rock with my mom while we cook. Talking about old movies with my gram. Teasing my step-brother about everything. In a way I don't ever want to leave, but as I look for the tell-tale signs of spring around me I also know that it is time for me to leave, and in the leaving, change and become a better, stronger person.
It is with this contemplative air that I am approaching this new period of, you guessed it, waiting. I have submitted all of the paperwork that the Peace Corps needs for now, and now I have to wait for my staging packet- which will arrive sometime in late June. Oh well, at least I'm practicing patience!
It is with this contemplative air that I am approaching this new period of, you guessed it, waiting. I have submitted all of the paperwork that the Peace Corps needs for now, and now I have to wait for my staging packet- which will arrive sometime in late June. Oh well, at least I'm practicing patience!
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Hopefully...
So this is a "hopefully" blog that I am starting because I'm pretty sure I'm going into the Peace Corps in June 0f 2009. I wanted to start it so that I could put the info in my Thank Yous for graduation. So if that applies to you Bookmark this page and check it in a couple of months, as I will post more when I know more.
Where I am in the process:
I am in the midst of completing the medical file (which is just the thrill of a life time- haha), which is apparently the longest part of the process and 2-3 months after the Peace Corps get my medical file (it takes that long to review it) I will get both a specific country that I will go to (probably in Africa) and a hard leave date(probably in June 2009).
In the meantime:
I got a job at H.W. Lochner in Bellevue, as a receptionist. Not my dream job, but it pays the bills and it also enables me to stay in Seattle, so it will do for the moment. I also have to get 6 months of ESL experience at some point in the next year, I haven't figured that out yet, so if you have any ideas let me know!
On Graduation:
So I just graduated from Seattle University on the 15th and while I am glad to be done it is also bittersweet as I watch many of my friends leave Seattle for ports known and unknown and I really want to go with them. At the same time I can rationalize my staying put really well (save money, stick close to home, take a break) so this leaves me in a space of the "in-between" which I hope will lessen when I am more settled with what I'm doing right now.
Anyway- toodles for now, talk to you later!- Glenna
Where I am in the process:
I am in the midst of completing the medical file (which is just the thrill of a life time- haha), which is apparently the longest part of the process and 2-3 months after the Peace Corps get my medical file (it takes that long to review it) I will get both a specific country that I will go to (probably in Africa) and a hard leave date(probably in June 2009).
In the meantime:
I got a job at H.W. Lochner in Bellevue, as a receptionist. Not my dream job, but it pays the bills and it also enables me to stay in Seattle, so it will do for the moment. I also have to get 6 months of ESL experience at some point in the next year, I haven't figured that out yet, so if you have any ideas let me know!
On Graduation:
So I just graduated from Seattle University on the 15th and while I am glad to be done it is also bittersweet as I watch many of my friends leave Seattle for ports known and unknown and I really want to go with them. At the same time I can rationalize my staying put really well (save money, stick close to home, take a break) so this leaves me in a space of the "in-between" which I hope will lessen when I am more settled with what I'm doing right now.
Anyway- toodles for now, talk to you later!- Glenna
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