Future

I thought I started planning for my time after Peace Corps early, but I must say that deadlines are creeping up on me. I am looking into graduate school options and have been since January. Now that my service is more than a year over these plans are becoming much more real. Sometimes it seems difficult to wrap my head around my multiple realities and future plans simultaneously.

Here I am in the U.S. on vacation. Now I will be going to malaria Boot Camp in Senegal before returning to my village. Then I have about 10 months of work to do before I will be shipped back--hopefully to begin working on my graduate studies. Everything seems to move faster in the U.S. or maybe time is just catching up with me. I guess everyone asking when I will be back permanently is reminding me that so much time has already passed since those first moments at the airport when the power went out. Even just the socio-political and economic climates are so different now than when I left. I think most volunteers are wondering what sort of work or school options are even going to be available for them when they return to the U.S. On the bright side I am now accustomed to living with very little... a disposition that may be handy in the near future especially during graduate school.

At any rate... we'll see.