About two weeks ago I emailed health placement because I believe it’s beneficial to ‘stay on top of the Peace Corps,’ meaning keeping contact every so often so that your application doesn’t remain stagnant. However, there is a fine line between sending friendly ‘don’t forget about me’ emails, and bothering them. The more time they have to spend answering ‘don’t forget about me’ calls and emails, the less time they have to issue invites, right?
Anyway, I received an email from placement stating, “We should be contacting you in the next couple of months with the next steps in the placement process. The timeframe for when you may be leaving is probably January-March of next year at this point although that could change and we do ask for flexibility.” Next couple of months? I was really disappointed. I thought for sure they would be requesting an updated resume or questionnaire or another interview or something! I’ve heard of a few people receiving invitations for January/February already and I thought for sure I was close! It has been rumored that more invites for Jan/Feb will be issued in July/August so there is more waiting ahead of me. I’m hoping to hear something by the end of July at this point. Although I say that every month, “I’m hoping to hear by the end of this month…”
At the beginning of June, my parents and I attended a PC sendoff party. I thought this was very beneficial and informative for both me and my parents. I spoke to a RPCV (Returned Peace Corps Volunteer) who returned from Burkina Faso in January. She was a health extension volunteer and hearing about the projects she did was amazing! It was so neat because she was also a recent grad when she went abroad and her experience was so valuable to her future. The sendoff party made me antsier. At one point they had two invitations to hand out to unsuspecting nominees. My heart was pounding out of my chest as they called two names. Mine obviously was not called because here I am, still waiting. I have faith though that an invitation will come, and in the meantime I’ll try to keep busy.
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