Back at the end of October I finally received my medical and dental clearance after 3 months of zero contact from the Peace Corps, which was awesome. I read other PC timelines constantly, and, for many, final interviews/updated resumes/invitations start flying in within a couple weeks of clearance.
I was not so lucky. I heard nothing until the first week of December, at which point I was asked to submit an updated resume. Still hopeful, I convinced myself this is the last hurdle, and that an invitation would soon follow.
Two weeks later, I receive another email. My placement officer needs me to answer a few questions either via email or phone interview and has attached the list of questions for me. Reading through the 2.5 pages of questions, discretely placed in the final subquestion in the very last question I find out the initial program I was nominated for (Central/South America, TEFL/Teacher Training, March 2013) has been closed.
Keep in mind, via PCwiki and some other online detective work, I’d narrowed down my placement to Costa Rica departing March 2013. There was no doubt in my mind where I was going. Expectations=crushed.
She wanted to know how flexible I was with my departure date and location. I responded with a more eloquent version of “I’ll go/do anything, anytime! Just let me go!!!”
I guess now I can confidently say I’ll be going somewhere, to do something, sometime between February and June 2013. Le sigh.
So now I’m waiting, again, for an update and hoping I hear something before we leave for our cruise Jan. 10.
crossing my fingers.
