I can see why Peace Corps and VSO have 2 year placements, and the normal WorldTeach assignment is for 1 year. Plain and simple, you need TIME to get a community to warm up to you. I don't know whether it's because I'm leaving in a few days, or if this is right around the time that there's a crack in the shell, but I'm feeling a lot more welcome here. The kids are talking to me more, and the secretary told me tonight that she wishes she had invited me over. I had to run over to her homestead to drop something off and she invited me into her house. I said it was the first time I'd been inside a mud house; she said she felt very bad about that. Sigh.
So if anyone out there is considering volunteering overseas, my recommendation is not to consider anything less than a year.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
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