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olunteers share their thoughts on everything from housing and food to staying in touch, community life, and the real details of Peace Corps work… in only five short minutes.
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"At first I was hesitant about living with a host family, but it has turned out to be one of the greatest things about this whole experience. My host mother always jokes that I am her long-lost son who has finally come home after 23 years studying abroad."
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"I live in a small community. My house is made out of mud bricks. There's a cement floor and a metal roof. I have a small courtyard that gives me some privacy, and I sleep outside in the courtyard during the hot season in March, April, and May."
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"I never thought I could wash my clothes without a washing machine. I never thought I would be fluent in another foreign language. I never thought I could live without a television or driving a car. Most of all I have learned a lot about myself and how to survive without the luxuries that life in the United States has to offer."
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"I'm in natural resource management. Some gardeners in my village told me of their need for a generator pump. They need to get the water from the river up to the gardens in the village. Right now they have a pump with a foot pedal. But they're getting on in age, and they can't all work the foot pedal... So this is a big issue for the gardeners right now, just to get one pump."
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"My first placement was El Salvador until April 2002. I was a water, sanitation, and health Volunteer who worked with the Salvadorian Ministry of Health. I accepted the position of being one of the first four Volunteers to reenter Peru since the program reopened in 2002, after 27 years."
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"I've been back to Syria, I've been back to Saudi Arabia and to many countries in the Middle East, and I know how the systems there work, but I always wondered whether I actually could work within that system. I wanted to be able to teach and to help people. And you really do get a chance to do it (in the Peace Corps). It's a challenge. It did not set me back in any way. I gained teaching experience and I gained language skills."
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Peace Corps recruiters appear at information sessions,
campus and community events, and career fairs. Pick your state and find
a Peace Corps event near you.
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