Dental and Legal Are Approved

Now I just have to wait a few months for the full medical to go through. But I am glad that nothing was skipped over in the dental, since if anything is missing they send the whole file back and make you get it done again! Good News!

The Waiting Begins

After I sent the application in, after looking it over about 3000 times, the waiting begins! I am so excited to hear where I am going and when I will be leaving! I should be able to check my status online, but I fogot my user name and password. How uncool of me! Oh well, I am sure after a little haggling, I will be able to make someone tell me the password, and I can have more regular updates. But since I haven't broken the law (and been caught!), or have any weird diseases I am assuming everything will go through smoothly and hopefully soon!

Getting my stuff together

When I applied to the Peace Corps on January 31st, I never thought that I would be sitting here on May 16th without my medical forms turned in! But alas, here I am. Today I am going to finally pick everything up and get it sent out to Washington DC so i can find out which country I am going to! They say that it will take about 2-3 months for me to find out once I have sent my forms in, so basically, I am going to spend the summer fending off questions about where I am going.

All I know so far is that I am going to go to Eastern Europe, and I am leaving in February. I also know that I am going to help establish after school programs for children who otherwise do not have that as an option. Originally I was going to teach English, I thought that would be a swell idea. However, once I got wind about this program and how I could actually be creating something so pivitol in the lives of these children I decided to jump at that chance. I sometimes get worried about being so excited about my job over there because I have heard many a story about people who were supposed to go somewhere and do something and then they find out a month before they leave that they are actually going to go somewhere else. That makes me a little nervous as I am one to like to know my plans are my plans. I think once I know I will get so excited that I'll hop over to a language center and see if I can find anyone to teach me the language so I have a heads up when I get there.

So, the plan for today is to pick everything up. I have completed forms sitting around various offices in the greater Denver metro area. All I need to do at this point is collect them and send them in! Good news is that I am healthy, I don't have any diseases or conditions that would rule out service, and that includes good teeth (my oh my!). So, with all this good news I will hopefully quickly be cleared so I can find out whats the deal! I also need to be financially cleared and legally cleared! It is pretty intense. I am lucky in the sense that I have never had any big trouble with the law, and that I don't own a house or anything. Sometime I wonder how older people get into this program. They ask you a million questions about your assets and children and debt and health. I wonder what it would be like for someone who felt they had just lost everything and wanted to use this program to get a new start in life. It would probably be impossible to get in. Anyway, I am lucky that everything seems to be going well so far. I will have more updates as the time goes by!