Thursday, November 29, 2012

You know you are a Peace Corps Volunteer when...

You know you are a Peace Corps Volunteer when: 

1. Ants crawling all over your food ceases to bother you...protein yum!
2. Traveling seven hours just to check your e-mail and Skype becomes a norm.
3. You can live for weeks out of just one backpack.
4. You read every letter you receive at least thirty times.
5. You forget how to use makeup.
6. You become upset over a 50 cent increase in taxi fare.
7. People commonly ask you why you don't have children yet, even though you are only 23.
8. Any cold beverage taste like heaven on earth.
9. You sometimes forget what language you are speaking.
10. You become frugal over water.
11. You start "beeping" people to not waste phone credit.
12. You consume anything American even if you didn't at home. Have you seen Justin Bieber's new haircut? (yes realize he is Canadian, but he's part of the average American teenage girl's idol list so I'll leave him here).
13. You speak and play with village children that aren't your own.  You forget how creepy this is considered    in the States.
14. When you ask what time something is supposed to happen you are used to being answered: "morning-morning" "afternoon afternoon" "night" "evening" "very morning"
15. You get funny tan lines all over your body.
16. You are constantly asked for your hand in marriage by locals.
17. You learn to NEVER trust a fart.
18. You feel like you are in a retirement home when talking to other pcvs, because the subject always ends up with sharing health problems.

3 comments:

  1. Peace Corps should compile those into lists and send them to David Letterman as a recruiting tool: "Top signs you are ready to join the Peace Corps".

    BTW, Justin Bieber is a Canadian.

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  2. I think if pcvs really shared what they go through as a recruiting tool, they'd attract a lot of adrenaline junkies or dissuade people from joining. I think people should jump in and figure out what they can tolerate, when they are on the ground experiencing it. BTW Andoniaina are you a rpcv Mada?

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    1. I am not a RPCV Mada since I'm not qualified to be a PCV in the first place. My pseudonym tells it all.

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