Returning Home
Originally posted on Home Title:
Peace Corps is hard. It’s really, really hard. The recruiting posters claim it’s the “toughest job you’ll ever love,” and until I spent a year…
Originally posted on Home Title:
Peace Corps is hard. It’s really, really hard. The recruiting posters claim it’s the “toughest job you’ll ever love,” and until I spent a year…
This is one of my favorite photo compilations. I created this video to show my host family of two years in Peace Corps Thailand at my farewell party. It does […]
A thank you video for the teachers and friends I’ve made in Peace Corps Thailand. A very sweet family thank-you-video coming soon. 5 days and counting, America. สองปีในประเทศไทย โรงเรียนขอขอบคุณคุณช่องแคพิทยาคม
“You know, I think everybody longs to be loved, and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to […]
When I went to Nepal last October I ran into many traveling nomads. Many people hopped around from place to place doing and seeing amazing things. Somewhere inside my brain […]
Banana Rock with the Boys on Koh Tao This week, on WWG, I bring you “My Sunsets Are Better Than Yours,” actually on a Wednesday this week. Yay! I’ve been […]
“Are you worried about coming home at all?” my friends and family ask. Yes, of course I’m scared. I’m a roller coaster of emotions as my return date quickly approaches […]
Sometimes the food comes in droves. Sometimes it doesn’t. A really long time ago in our service, strange, seemingly unreal things became our new normal. We adopted things that may […]
Sometimes I’m too humble to admit my own accomplishments, no matter how big or small they may be. Most times, they don’t really feel like my own accomplishments at all, […]
My friends and I often talk about how our Peace Corps service and marriage are so similar. “I’m married to the Peace Corps,” we’ll jokingly say. Interestingly, I can’t find […]
Need a little inspiration? Need a little faith in humanity to get your New Year’s started off right? Need a reminder why we always try to make this world a […]
Okay, I know. It’s Friday, even late Thursday night in some parts of the world, but I’m busting at the seam to post some photos, so you can reap some […]
For a couple weeks I have talked about all the editing I am doing behind the scenes from my various events and activities in October. It was a busy month, […]
In just two weeks I will start my COS conference with the Peace Corps. COS stands for “close of service” and in many ways “continuation of service,” too. A flurry […]
I have been thinking about how lucky I am to have taught my students for the past two years and it got me thinking about some of the successful and […]
Student-Friendly Schools: A Collective Pride Remember how I talked about my greatest pride in my blog post “My Greatest Volunteer Accomplishment of All: It Isn’t Mine at All?” Well that […]
Two months ago in July my host grandmother, Yai, stayed in the hospital for over 5 days. At that time, there was a lot of chaos and anxiety in the […]
It’s a pretty simple theory: anything that whittles the world down into a smaller, more intimate and manageable size does the soul good. We regain our balance from anything that […]
It’s a pretty simple theory: anything that whittles the world down into a smaller, more intimate and manageable size does the soul good. We regain our balance from anything that […]
I wake up in the early hours of morning light with the host family downstairs already hustling and bustling about the room. It’s not yet 6:30 a.m. but the day […]