The Peace Corps gives you an opportunity to do something great something that is beyond booking a ticket for an adventure to the ends of the earth. It is about living for two years in an adventure at the ends of the earth. It's an opportunity to broaden your perspectives about culture and all things that make up humanity. Facing challenges of emotion and physical hardships are only a fraction of the pleasure, because living through challenges lead to success and then the pleasure follows. Everyone who joins has this desire to do something great and has a compassion to make a difference in the lives they touch. We came here to do something different to change our typical routines back home, in which we became tired of. We wanted to defy all things normal and do the extraordinary.

It is a liberty to be educated. It is a right to be, to be defined as a human and it reflects directly into our years of existence. Whether it is in the form of a basic skill like you find the old man herding his sheep down a dusty sand blowing road on the west coast of Africa or an information technology teacher teaching his students in the Ukraine . That old man, the sheep herder dressed in rags, was educated by his father or by an uncle who knew that he could make a lively hood from herding his sheep down a dusty sand blowing road on the west coast of Africa . Unbeknownst to many tourists who simply make an observation of a simple glance probably don't realize that that man was taught how to speak English from a Peace Corps Volunteer. As for the information technology teacher in the Ukraine , I am sure, but could not comment officially about his motives, he has an itch for adventure capitalism. I wonder where he came up with the idea.

We give hope and the compassion to those lives we touch. In the western world many will find third world countries economically depressed. They may defy these lifestyles as they read the Sunday's newspaper in their typical Sunday position. You can find prosperity under desolate skies and things here are just refreshingly distant, alien, and all things different. The Peace Corps is about a moment of your life living in the curious and doing the incredible. This is two years living in a dream of a Kennedy.