Disclaimer

The contents of this website are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. government or the Peace Corps.

Mail

Many of you have asked how to communicate and the best way is pen and paper. I will only have email access every few months. The postage to Malawi is $.90 for 1 ounce and it takes 2 to 3 weeks for me to receive your letters. Please write Air Mail on the envelope and number your letters in case one of them is held up in the mail.

Bright Tate, PCT
Peace Corps
P. O. Box 208
Lilongwe, Malawi

I look forward to hearing from you. Peace.

February 4, 2008

After four months of drafting and research, I submitted the first of many Peace Corps applications November 30, 2006. I received my offer January 10, 2008 and immediately accepted. My work will be primarily Natural Resource Management and Conservation, secondarily HIV/AIDS Education and thirdly community development.

Here's to the next adventure. I leave Charlotte February 21 for Washington, DC, then onto Johannesburg, South Africa, finally arriving in Lilongwe, Malawi February 25. Lilongwe is Malawi's capital city and is in the center of the country. The Malawi Peace Corps office and medical office and US embassy are in Ligongwe. I'll be in and out of the "big city" for the next few months during training. In late-April or early-May I start my two year post somewhere else, probably in a small community.