Category Archives: Peace Corps culture

Peace Corps has an interesting culture of its own, full of slang, binge drinking, and unusual ways of living.

Peace Corps volunteer safety and security

By Scott Wallick | Published: Feb 24, 2004
The last thing that I wrote about safety and security got my Web site shut down by the Peace Corps Washington, DC, office. Perhaps it's just a coincident that my predictions (or rather, intelligence collected) about the security situation in the Rautahaut, Bara, and Parsa districts have come true, much to the frustration of the Peace Corps Kathmandu office. Not that it matters. The fact is that we PCVs are ourselves responsible for our safety. How can someone expect someone else to take care of them?
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What I did

By Scott Wallick | Published: Feb 11, 2004
Somehow we came up with idea over dinner. I had just arrived in Birtamod, Jhapa, to visit Andrew one last time before our lives as PCVs. I was going to stay for a night, maybe two, before heading back to Birganj. Anyhow, we were having dinner, and Andrew was talking about the school visits he would be making the next day: a short in-and-out trip to invite two English teachers to an upcoming training.
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Finishing touches

By Scott Wallick | Published: Jan 23, 2004
During training, one of the hardest and seemingly most necessary things I wanted to communicate to my host family was that I missed home. I missed home. I missed my friends. I missed pizza and beer as dark as the nights in my new, lightless neighborhood. But the best that I could do, after two months of Peace Corps' astounding language training, was to tell them, Ma yad garchhu, I remember.
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Blogging in the Peace Corps

By Scott Wallick | Published: Jan 19, 2004
It was the end of December, and I was coming back to Birganj from Rajbiraj. I had celebrated Christmas for a second time in Rajbiraj and was thinking that this would be the last time I would be there, the last time I would make the trip I had made perhaps ten times before. Last year's Christmas was, well, difficult.
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Still learning

By Scott Wallick | Published: Dec 8, 2003
Things should be simpler. If people can travel to another hemisphere, learn a somewhat obscure second language, eat with their hands, and grow comfortable with the sounds of bombs and gunfire, then surely organizing and executing a basic teacher training with motivated teachers in a scenic location shouldn't be a problem.
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