Today marks the arrival of a fresh new group of Peace Corps Trainees in South Africa, the third to come since our group (SA20) arrived in July 09. They will be scattered in various provinces throughout the country doing HIV/AIDS Outreachwork with local NGOs until 2013.
I am always amazed at the different lives people walk away from to join Peace Corps. Groups range from single, recent graduates, married couples of all ages, people in the middle of their career or in the process of changing their career, to retired people in their 70s looking for something meaningful to do. Pretty cool to see people from all walks of life come together while being thrown into this new, crazy environment!
Apparently SA23 has a couple of interesting members too! Sean Smith, the former LA bureau chief of Entertainment Weekly, just wrote an article about leaving his job mid-career to join the Peace Corps and come to SA. Not all of us can say our inspiration to join Peace Corps came from some wise words from Angelina Jolie herself....
Anyways you all should read the article! Gives some nice insight into the process (for some) of leaving their jobs for Peace Corps service...
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