I did some reading over the weekend from my new favorite website. Wikipedia. Check it out. Fix what's wrong. Learn something new. It's all so cool. From there I found links to some great Peace Corps sites; a website devoted to blogs and stories from the field, Thirdgoal.com, which led me to this picture and also to a blog from a man who had recently (4 mos. ago) been deployed to Haiti. He's now back home as last week the Peace Corps pulled out all their staff from the country amid rising safety concerns, but since that is potentially a place I could be sent it made me very interested to see what he said. I think I'm going to write him this week, although I doubt now with the pullout I will be assigned there; but you never know. He was only able to serve four months, but to read about how it affected him was very moving. I don't know what is in store for me, and I'd lie to say I'm not nervous and even scared; I'm also ready, and I'm also happy. It seems like so far away but my time will be here sooner than I can realize. As with everything, I tend to mute my excitedness. But it's there; everything I could or should possible be feeling is there. Trust me.

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