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.