We had another interview last week; this interview was like our "invitation interview." It was mostly a check-in to see how we are feeling and what we are thinking. They wanted to know what challenges we thought we might face as individuals and as a couple. Following the conversation we were told that we were officially qualified for an invitation! That is good to know!
A few ideas we have based on the conversation:
What will we be doing? It sounds like Arie may be doing community development, and Kate may be doing youth development and teaching English.
Where might we go? Eastern Europe was mentioned - does this mean that we will serve there? Who knows, but it is a region where A LOT of Peace Corps Volunteers serve. Check out the Interactive Map of Peace Corps countries; it is really fun to play with. You can see what countries we might enf up in. Eastern Europe is not just the former western USSR countries (which is what I have always thought) but also more southern countries closer to the Middle East. We were told that Central and South America would be "last resort" places for us. They would look for open positions there if they could not find us anything else for us in the world. This is because there are so many American's with really strong Spanish skills, and Kate in particular has minimal Spanish. Arie has college level Spanish, but there are many people who are fluent - they go to this region first.
We were told we would hear something from them in August, but we are not sure what. We will keep you all updated! Thanks for reading!
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