The Peace Corps sounds like an adventure. Unfortunately I haven’t even left the country yet and so far it is not quite the adventure that I had expected.
I got back to the states from Taipei last Thursday night, anticipating my 6 AM flight Sunday morning to Washington DC for staging (which is like a pre-departure orientation). On Friday, I got up early to drive to Fair Oaks to take the GRE and spent the rest of the day hanging out with friends in Berkeley. I didn’t get a chance to check my email until Saturday morning, when I read a letter from Cecily that said if I was not dentally cleared by 5 PM Friday (yesterday at this point), I would not be issued a plane ticket for staging in DC. I was unaware of this earlier, and the FedEx package containing my dental papers were not arriving in DC one business day after Friday, or Tuesday after the long weekend. I frantically dialed all of the Peace Corps numbers that I knew, leaving messages and trying to find someone who could tell me what was going to happen. I finally got a call back from someone who said I had not been issued a ticket to DC and should wait until Tuesday morning to call about the next step.
It is now Wednesday morning and one stressful day later. I just received an email confirmation that all the paperwork I FedEx-d over yesterday is in order, and they are issuing me a ticket for 6:55 PM tonight from SJC to Managua where I can join my training class for my original assignment.
Though I didn’t get to go to staging, I’m glad that I am going on my assignment and leaving almost as planned. I guess this is a lesson to communicate better to ensure that things go smoothly, but when necessary, accept and deal with the unexpected. Getting on the plane will be a grand relief, and hopefully getting off will be the start of a much more exciting adventure.
2 comments:
soooo exciting! I am glad that everything worked out.
...You know this means you could have gotten wasted with me on Friday though... hahaha jk =) I look forward to more entries.
all riggght! you're almost on board. you just need to make it on to 2 more planes safely and you can release the biggest sigh of relief EVER.
haha silly stephanie.
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