Well, as some of you heard and what we expected, Amy got her Peace Corps invitation packet yesterday. It included her assignment: Teaching English Language in a Secondary School in Namibia and the date she starts her training: November 7th. It also included a handbook on the Peace Corps in Namibia, a manual of policies and many forms she needs to fill out. The specific information about training (called staging) will come in a week or so.
Needless to say she is very excited and so are we (although we have a mixture of emotions not unlike certain other parents have had recently when someone got her drivers license). She has 10 days to respond, but I think she is calling today to accept. I'm sure that more information will be coming on this blog, but I thought I'd make it official.
In the past week, we have been looking at some very interesting information on the internet and I thought I'd give you some of the best links we've seen so far.
Liz's Peace Corps Adventures in Namibia is a website of a current Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV) who is teaching computer in northern Namibia. She is starting her second year there and the site is full of very good information.
From the Namibia Desk is a blog with one entry that is a copy of a current PCV's assignment. It is almost word for word what Amy got (except for the dates of course).
Mat and Tayor Connot's Peace Corps Namibia Web Chronicle and Contrasting Beautiful, Namibia are two blogs from married couples who are teaching or have taught in Namibia.
There are many other links to blogs from current and past PCV's in Namibia and other countries that I might share at another time.
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