Hello all! This will be my blog for my time in the Peace Corps over the next two years.

So let me start with a re-cap of the past year, when I first decided to apply to be a Peace Corps volunteer:

This time last year, I was in my last semester of college, trying to figure out what I wanted to do after it was all over. I looked into the Peace Corps but found that I didn't have enough experience to do the Environmental work that I was most enthusiastic about. So, after graduating, I took six months to do an internship with the Student Conservation Association in Ohio's Wayne National Forest. The internship turned out to be better that I could have possibly anticipated! I got to live and work with some awesome people. I learned a ton about fire ecology and how to identify plants. I got to make some awesome side-trips to Idaho, West Virginia, Canada, Chicago & Milwaukee, and even Cartagena, Colombia! I even made some good money as a wildland firefighter. At the end of my internship, I received my invitation to work as an Environmental Extension Agent in Mali.

Since the internship ended two months ago, I've made some awesome trips to the Florida Keys, New Mexico, and Philadelphia. I've been trying to spend as much time as possible with friends and family. That and apprendre le français!

So, in two weeks I'll be in Mali... I'm sure I'll learn a ton.




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