Quote of the Week:
Nadia: Peace Corps Don’t Screen For Crazy!!
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH! I am still laughing at this one, because it is unfortunately so very true.

Quote from the Past:
Ms. Kim: Let’s play one of my favorite games. It’s called, “Name Any Country on This Planet and I Will Tell You How Either the United States, the United Kingdom, or France Messed It Up.”

For those of you were not so blessed as to have Ms. Kim in your lives: She was my US History teacher in high school. And she was Absolutely Fabulous (FYI-I love that BBC show!)! I am sure that she still is! Anyone know where she is? I know she is not teaching at Eastern anymore. I had that class during 0 mod (an optional class time slot for us sick overachievers who loved being in class at 6 something in the morning), and I still looked forward to it every day! That is how awesome she was. She was full of amusing witticisms and observations…. One which involved a “naked mole rat” and my then boyfriend’s love for me… I so should have heeded her warning on that one…

Anywho! I was thinking of this comment of hers during a recent lecture we had on Cameroonian history and politics, and it made me giggle out loud. Then I started to think of another little Ms. Kim anecdote about how she spent one particular Valentine’s Day and I just started cracking up. For those of you who have not caught on, I’m fairly easily amused. Understatement. I won’t even tell you about that one time where I laughed about an episode of Arthur (Yes, on PBS. Don’t hate.) all through the 2 hours of my Protein Folding class. At least the smelly kid who sat next to me decided to move to another seat.

So the clock is ticking. We swear-in on Wednesday (assuming that we all pass our Language Proficiency Exam on Monday…), and then we leave for our posts at the crack of dawn on Thursday. I am soooooooooo glad that Stage is almost over, but I am gonna miss all of you poopyheads like whoa! Even though it creeps me out that after 3 months together… day in… and day out… we still all get along. Gross. And thanks for the interesting night :D

FYI #1: Many of you have been inquiring as to what I want for Christmas/My Birthday and which address you should send it to. For those of my less faithful followers who failed to do so, shame on you. Anywho, gonna ask you to hold off on that for a bit cuz hopefully I will be able to set up a Peace Corps Partnership site once I get to my village. I will post the link; then you can donate money to help me with my projects at my health center! I understand how truly awesome I am though, so I will not prevent any of you from sending me any additional presents via airmail… as you will see in my second FYI.

FYI #2: We did a superlative Who’s Who thing for our Stage and guess who won “Best Attitude?” That’s right! Send me rewards. Like a refrigerator. And an oven/stove. And an air-conditioning unit. And electricity. Actually, I will be elated if someone sends me a freakin cereal bar. Merci.

posted by Me at 11:12 AM