Guest Post: The Toughest Job You’ll Ever Love
Today's guest post comes from Sara Wenger , an old friend of mine from high school. Sara is currently serving in the Peace Corps, and agreed to share her thoughts on the experience she's had so far. As she proves, the Peace Corps often does not match up to the picture many Americans paint of it. We’ve all been there. That day when one questions what the next step is or decides that a drastic change from an eight to five is needed. Peace Corps is often the Mad Lib phrase filler of choice for such momentary outbursts of discontent in popular media. It’s like a playful threat used to gain compassion. Through this type of use in our society, Peace Corps is often misinterpreted as a do-gooder fairytale of intelligent hardworking Americans going to the bush and making everything better for the newly adopted community. I’m sure the audience reading this knows better, but as a current volunteer I’m still surprised from time to time when talking to people at home about the disconnect ...