Miami Airport

We had two days of training in Philadelphia. A lot of it involved discussing all of our individual concerns and questions about the Peace Corps experience. If there was one phrase to sum it all up, it would be, “it depends”. All of us are going to have our own individual experience, so what is going to happen just depends on what happens. The main thing I think we all got out of our two days in Philadelphia was that all of us have been going through the same stresses and concerns for the last few months and it was nice for all of us to feel that we are not alone in what we are feeling and to have people to discuss these feelings with. We are a fairly diverse group, a mix of personalities, I was actually the only volunteer to have a room to themselves in Philadelphia which I had no complaint about being able to spread my stuff out all over the place. That’s the American way, if there is space try to use it all up! Although I’m writing this almost a month after my Philadelphia experience, I remember that we all meshed pretty well, and now a month later, we all are still getting along. It’s different for me to be around the same group of people 10 hours a day, 6 days a week. I know I can only usually take about 2 days in a row hanging out with my friends back home, so when I start getting a little agitated here, I do my best not to correlate it to the individuals here and remind myself that it is me that needs to make the adjustment. The photo with this entry was taken in Miami Airport, during our layover on our way to Lima. I was one of the few volunteers who was not exhausted from the lack of sleep during our time in Philly and traveling. I remember being WIDE awake the whole time. I was on an adrenaline rush the whole time which continued to be anticlimactic because we spent hours on buses, planes, and in airports, and eventually I just wanted to get there.