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Sparhawk · 04-06-2004, 02:33 PM

I'd like to add another whopping CONGRATS and a hearty THANK YOU for serving your country. I'm a foreign service brat, mostly in latin america/carribean, and I've had a couple of Peace Corps friends. I might be mixing this up, but the friend I met in Panama told me the range of jobs even within one country is pretty vast. Some work in the city, but the one that stuck out in my mind was this one guy who had to take a bus for 10 hours from the city, then hike for several hours to reach his work/home. But that's during the dry season. During the rainy season it took the better part of a day. The guy learned spanish and the local indian language, which is probably only spoken (as a first language) by 20,000 or so people.

That's one end. On the other is a guy, who, upon the local administrator (I think that's the title of the mission director...) learning that he had computer skills, was put in charge of revamping the headquarters to a paperless system, which took the better part of his tour (and also meant that he got to party in the city with me

).

Like anything though, you get out of it what you put into it.

04-06-2004, 02:33 PM	#11 (permalink)
Sparhawk Dubya Location: VA	I'd like to add another whopping CONGRATS and a hearty THANK YOU for serving your country. I'm a foreign service brat, mostly in latin america/carribean, and I've had a couple of Peace Corps friends. I might be mixing this up, but the friend I met in Panama told me the range of jobs even within one country is pretty vast. Some work in the city, but the one that stuck out in my mind was this one guy who had to take a bus for 10 hours from the city, then hike for several hours to reach his work/home. But that's during the dry season. During the rainy season it took the better part of a day. The guy learned spanish and the local indian language, which is probably only spoken (as a first language) by 20,000 or so people. That's one end. On the other is a guy, who, upon the local administrator (I think that's the title of the mission director...) learning that he had computer skills, was put in charge of revamping the headquarters to a paperless system, which took the better part of his tour (and also meant that he got to party in the city with me ). Like anything though, you get out of it what you put into it. __________________ "In Iraq, no doubt about it, it's tough. It's hard work. It's incredibly hard. It's - and it's hard work. I understand how hard it is. I get the casualty reports every day. I see on the TV screens how hard it is. But it's necessary work. We're making progress. It is hard work."