Woke up to a bit of a blizzard this morning. Well, more accurately, I was woken up by a brilliantly orange colored sky at about 3:00 am, at which point, I noticed a significant amount of snow. I'm not from Santa Fe, I'm from Chicago. I've only lived here for about seven months. But, I am told that almost every time the sky turns orange we have a blizzard. Kind of a beautiful/fantastic/bizarre phenomenon.
As I read more blogs of fellow applicants I'm feeling a bit of negativity and general antsyness regarding people's applications. Let me say these words of encouragement as a person who has already been through the entire process:
IT TAKES A LONG TIME! Don't be surprised if you don't hear from them for months. This isn't to say that I haven't been feeling extremely anxious this time around, in fact I think it's worse than last time, but just immerse yourself in the present as much as you can. Those of you that are sort of putting things on hold until you feel better prepared, I think this is a wonderfully mature thing to come to terms with. I myself was guilty of jumping the gun with service last time and it ended up costing me about two years of serious contemplation and hard work. If you don't feel ready, then put it off, it will always be there. It's hard when you've told friends and family that you're doing Peace Corps and now you're having second thoughts, but it's better than terminating early. Peace Corps makes us wait for precisely this reason, 27 months is a long time and we need to be ready.
As a person who ETed, I had to go through some very serious hurdles to make it this far (nomination) again and there's no telling whether or not Placement will turn me down. It's likely that they will. It is extremely rare that a person in my position gets nominated again and I have yet to come in contact with anyone that has even tried to reapply, so I'm crossing my fingers and hoping for the best. But I think it's wise to apply for a few things at once; grad school, other volunteer organizations and not put all of your eggs in one basket. I wish you all the best and I do hope that we can all make our dreams come true. Keep your heads up and whatever luck we do have is likely to work in our favor. <3
About Me
- **Dynami†e!**
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- <3 Graduate of Northern Arizona University with a B.A. in History (Islamic Studies)/Arabic. I will begin my postgraduate studies this upcoming fall at University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, Masters of Near and Middle Eastern Studies/Arabic with a specific focus on Israel, the Arab World and the Palestinians. For now, soaking up the sun in Santa Fe and trying to have as much fun as possible before I retreat to a library for the next few years.
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4 comments:
We should call you the PC nominee zen guru. Patience! All things come in their due time...or something :)
I noticed you went to NAU - I graduate from UA in May! We're AZ buddies. Best of luck with the process this second time around :)
Haha. All I'm saying is we have to relax or we're all gonna lose our minds. And yes NAU!! Thanks for the well wishes, good luck to you as well!
The first thing that came to mind when I read "we have to relax" was
relax don't do it
when you want to to go to it...
RELAX [etc]
anyway, point taken ;)
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