Thursday, May 15, 2008

When Others Leave Early

05/07/08

Being in the Peace Corps is hard. The hardest part is dealing with the unfamiliar. Strangeness surrounds you and weighs upon you constantly. There is the occasional relief of Good and Plenty candies from home, raisins, or being with other Peace Corps. Then you plunge back to the unfamiliar, the non-understandable world in which you are placed.

Peace Corps Volunteers return home early for a number of reasons, all legitimate. Yet whatever the reason for leaving early there is the negative impact on those remaining. Those returning are going back to a world you know and left.

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