OK, Everyone. I have received my assignment! It is (drum roll here) PERU! in community-based environmental management as an environmental educator my service is from November 24, 2012 to November 24, 2014 with my training taking place in Peru the three months before the service starts. I am totally jazzed!

Completed Medical, Dental and No Legal Holds!

Now I am just waiting for my placement. Patiently waiting, while my feet are dancing with excitement and nervousness.

Waiting for the Peace Corps

Patience, flexibility, awareness and hope is just part of what it takes to be a Peace Corps Volunteer. Even now several months before I hope to leave I practice these. The Peace Corps is currently reviewing my medical forms very thoroughly. I forgot a few of the necessary items and so will get those to the Peace Corps as soon as I can. On Tuesday they called me, worried that I had an enlarged heart, because one of the X-rays taken when I went into the hospital for my appendectomy last January, showed a slightly enlarged heart. The X-ray was re-taken, a second X-ray from a different angle was also taken. My heart is not enlarged but now many of my friends ask me how I can go into the Peace Corps without a big heart. So even here it is patience, flexibility, awareness and hope.