After many months of procrastination, I am finally starting this blog so all of you can read about my experiences in the Peace Corps. For those of you who don't know, I am leaving Maryland in 9 days to serve as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Federated States of Micronesia ( I'll post a map of it later). There I'll be teaching English as a second language and doing community development work. I've spent months, even years, preparing for this journey and now that it's about to happen, I'm am extremely excited and relieved. I'm happy to say I'm pretty prepared and ready to go. I've bought everything I need and started to pack today with some help from a friend of my mom's who happened to serve 4 years as a PCV in the Ivory Coast of Africa. She helped me decide what to pack and what to leave behind (my goal is to limit my luggage to a backpacker's backpack and a daypack). A few days ago I ordered my plan ticket to my staging (orientation) event in LA. I just have to review my PC manual and some info I'm required to read before training. Starting September 13, my address for the first 2 months is this:
Ben Gruver, PCT
Peace Corps/Micronesia
PO Box 9
Kolonia, Pohnpei
FSM 96941
I am not sure what my internet situation will be like, so plan on writing me letters for now. I will update you when I find out more information. Bye for now.
