but I want to know nowwww!

Ok, I know it hasn't even been a week since we found out, and our paperwork wont be mailed to the DC office for three more weeks, but I want to know where were are going nowwww! (Be sure to include Violet's whiny voice from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) I know I need to be patient, but when I know the country I can start the majority of the planning. If you know me, you know that I take after my Mother in that I like to PLAN. I desperately yearn to make lists of things to do, and make and buy, errands to run, and injections to get. I want to cyber-stalk other people who have gone to my country and read their blogs. I want tips on packing. Do the skirts and dresses have to be to the knee, or mid-calf? Can I wear sleeveless things? What is the general climate and what types of vegetable seeds should I bring? (I plan to have a garden, which is pretty common) Should I plan for scorching heat, monsoons, or both? Am I going to be doing health education or special ed? The mental image I have of Ken and I's peace corps adventure looks a lot like us in Africa, in a mud hut, in 120 degree weather, with a mass of beautiful chocolate colored children swarming us. There is a very good chance that this is pretty accurate, but we could also get sent to Eastern Europe and be in the mountains where it's cold, and then my mental image is completely and utterly wrong. I know you can't really plan for what will happen overseas, and I wont know what I'm getting myself into, or what it will even look like until we get there, but me and my Nazi planning tendencies would like to think otherwise. I mostly just want a vague mental image. And I'm going to have to wait another two months before I get it. Pout.

We're Recommended!

We had our second interview with Erin our recruiter this morning, and she's sending our applications to DC! The process for the next few months will be as follows:

1. She'll fill out a form discussing how awesome we are, which will be sent in on August 10th (as they can only send them in once a month, on the 10th)
2. DC will start looking at programs that match our skill sets. Apparently there are going to be a bunch of new programs opening in August and September so it's less likely we'll have to wait months and months for placement.
3. DC will find an awesome program that coincides with our awesomeness, and will contact our recruiter. This will probably happen starting two weeks - 2 months following August 10th, when she'll submit the application
4. We'll accept program, and then are official Peace Corps nominees.
5. After loads of paperwork, we will leave probably between July and September 2010!

YeeHaw!

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I stumbled upon these today - and I think they're cool.

2nd interview!

So I got an email from Erin today to let us know that she had received all of our paperwork, and to setup our secondary interview! The interview is scheduled for Wednesday the 15th at 10am! It will be a phone interview - so Ken, myself and Erin will have a 3-way call. Hopefully everything will go great! I'm very excited.
On the job front, things are looking pretty good. I've been able to pick up a bunch of hours at the daytime clinics, so my hours are around 35 per week, which I'm loving. Hopefully it continues, or I get some other daytime job. We'll see, I've sent out tons of applications and resumes, so hopefully something comes back, or the daytime hours stick.

Waiting...

So, we finally finished sending off the redo paperwork stuff. The last thing to send off was Ken's recommendation letter which we got in the mail from Ken's friend on Thursday, and sent it off on Friday. So now we just wait for Erin's call to schedule the second interview. Very exciting! I'm hoping we can get the call sometime this week, and the interview next week. Unfortunately, Ken will be out of town on backpacking trips quite a bit of the next week and a half, so hopefully we can arrange it around him being gone. I'm excited to get all the medical clearance paperwork, because that's something that I can control. I don't like waiting around for other people to get there stuff done, I would much rather go to appointments and get poked and prodded to the government's content.

Sent off!

Yay! Today I faxed copies of our marriage licence and official transcripts to the Seattle office. Ken and I had both emailed our resumes last week, and Ken talked to his friend Jake last night who said he had finished the recommendation, and would mail it to us today. Things are rolling baby!
On the job front, I had an interview that went really well, but the position is too many hours to keep my job at AHC, but not enough hours and not good enough benefits to replace my job at AHC. So I was in a bind, and had to tell them that it wasn't going to work. I felt bad, but had to do it. Hopefully I'll hear something from the multitude of positions I have applied for the last week. I would really like to continue at AHC, so ideally I would like a 20-24 hour daytime position to add to those hours. Hopefully something will happen, because the money is running out!