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Author: Dillon Banerjee Publisher: ISBN: 9781580080972 Category : Languages : en Pages : 196
Book Description
Dillon Banerjee spent two years as a Peace Corp volunteer in Cameroon and offers an insider's perspective on the organization, the work, the joys, the trials, and the tribulations. "So, You Want to Join the Peace Corps" provides the real scoop only a returned volunteer has access to. So you're looking into joining the Peace Corps & you've got questions galore. Will you have running water? How will the culture shock affect you? Will your work schedule allow you time to travel & explore the region in which you're stationed? So, You Want to Join the Peace Corps provides the real scoop only a returned volunteer has access to-a far cry from the "official" information that the government prints. If you're eager to know what the Peace Corps experience is really like, you've come to the right place.
Author: Dillon Banerjee Publisher: ISBN: 9781580080972 Category : Languages : en Pages : 196
Book Description
Dillon Banerjee spent two years as a Peace Corp volunteer in Cameroon and offers an insider's perspective on the organization, the work, the joys, the trials, and the tribulations. "So, You Want to Join the Peace Corps" provides the real scoop only a returned volunteer has access to. So you're looking into joining the Peace Corps & you've got questions galore. Will you have running water? How will the culture shock affect you? Will your work schedule allow you time to travel & explore the region in which you're stationed? So, You Want to Join the Peace Corps provides the real scoop only a returned volunteer has access to-a far cry from the "official" information that the government prints. If you're eager to know what the Peace Corps experience is really like, you've come to the right place.
Author: Luke Fegenbush Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company ISBN: 1620232081 Category : Economic assistance, American Languages : en Pages :
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Joining the Peace Corps can seem like a daunting task. However, if you ve ever been interested or have entertained the thought of it, this book is the all-inclusive guide you need. When you turn 18, you can join the more than 220,000 Americans who have served in 63 countries. This experience is truly life changing; if you feel like you re in a rut or want to get out there and do something that you might not be able to do in the future, joining the Peace Corps might be the answer. This book contains many interviews with young people who have served in the Peace Corps; they tell their stories and give practical advice about joining. You will learn how to apply, the specific qualifications to join, and what you can do to boost your chances of submitting a winning application. We also cover everything that comes after the application process, such as the countries served, the languages spoken, and the vital medical and safety information that you will need to remain safe during your travels, all explained simply. After reading this book, the young adult audience will feel prepared and will know exactly what to expect. This book even covers how to adjust to coming back home. Pack your bags for a great adventure this book has you covered.-- (11/30/2016 12:00:00 AM)"
Author: Dillon Banerjee Publisher: Turtleback Books ISBN: 9781417726134 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Dillon Banerjee spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon and offers an insider's perspective on the organization, the work, the joys, the trials, and the tribulations.
Author: Kelly Branyik Publisher: Write with Light Publications LLC ISBN: 9780980236675 Category : Languages : en Pages : 117
Book Description
It Depends" is a Peace Corps guide dedicated to present and future volunteers preparing for their first, second, or even third Peace Corps Journey. The title was inspired by the phrase often used by Peace Corps staff when volunteers asked questions about what to expect during their service. The Peace Corps staff always settled on the same answer, "It Depends." This guide draws from past volunteers' individual experiences as well as the author's personal journey and presents real stories, ideas, experiences, and advice on how to make the most of the Peace Corps lifestyle, experience, and journey. The author will take you through the Peace Corps life from start to finish, from considering Peace Corps to closing out your service. This guide is short, informative, fun, and will get any person considering Peace Corps excited to start the adventure and assist current volunteers in finding their next passion in life once their passion for Peace Corps has been completed.
Author: Greg Alder Publisher: Greg Alder ISBN: 0988682206 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 266
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The Kingdom of Lesotho is a mountainous enclave in southern Africa, and like mountain zones throughout the world it is isolated, steeped in tradition, and home to few outsiders. The people, known as Basotho, are respected in the area as the only tribe never to be defeated by European colonizers. Greg Alder arrives in Tsoeneng in 2003 as the village's first foreign resident since 1966. Back then, the Canadian priest who had been living there was robbed and murdered in his quarters. Set up as a Peace Corps teacher at the village's secondary school, Alder finds himself incompetent in so many unexpected ways. How do you keep warm in this place where it snows but there is no electricity? How do you feed yourself where there are no grocery stores let alone restaurants? Tsoeneng is a world apart from his home in America, but Alder persists in adapting. He learns to grow food, he learns to speak the strange local language, and he makes enough friends such that he is eventually invited to participate in initiation rites. Yet even as he seems accepted into the Tsoeneng fold, he sees how much of an outsider he will always remain-and perhaps want to remain. The Mountain School is insightful and candid, at times accepting and at times rebellious. It is the ultimate tale of the transplant.
Author: Moritz Thomsen Publisher: University of Washington Press ISBN: 9780295969282 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 330
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At the age of 48, Moritz Thomsen sold his pig farm and joined the Peace Corps. As he tells the story, his awareness of the comic elements in the human situation--including his own--and his ability to convey it in fast-moving, earthy prose have madeLiving Poora classic. "Hilariously funny at times, grimly sad at others and elavened with perceptive insights into the ways of the people and with breathtaking descriptions of the Ecuadorian landscape."-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Author: Molly Geidel Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 1452945268 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 356
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To tens of thousands of volunteers in its first decade, the Peace Corps was “the toughest job you’ll ever love.” In the United States’ popular imagination to this day, it is a symbol of selfless altruism and the most successful program of John F. Kennedy’s presidency. But in her provocative new cultural history of the 1960s Peace Corps, Molly Geidel argues that the agency’s representative development ventures also legitimated the violent exercise of American power around the world and the destruction of indigenous ways of life. In the 1960s, the practice of development work, embodied by iconic Peace Corps volunteers, allowed U.S. policy makers to manage global inequality while assuaging their own gendered anxieties about postwar affluence. Geidel traces how modernization theorists used the Peace Corps to craft the archetype of the heroic development worker: a ruggedly masculine figure who would inspire individuals and communities to abandon traditional lifestyles and seek integration into the global capitalist system. Drawing on original archival and ethnographic research, Geidel analyzes how Peace Corps volunteers struggled to apply these ideals. The book focuses on the case of Bolivia, where indigenous nationalist movements dramatically expelled the Peace Corps in 1971. She also shows how Peace Corps development ideology shaped domestic and transnational social protest, including U.S. civil rights, black nationalist, and antiwar movements.
Author: Jake Fawson Publisher: Other Places Publishing ISBN: 098226190X Category : Languages : en Pages : 193
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Herein reside seventeen stories (and one poem) written by Peace Corps Volunteers from across the generations and across the planet. Such writing often brings expectations for a certain type of book (heartwarming, uplifting, nice). Many books give you that experience. And we like those books. They are good books. The world needs those books. This is not that book. Americans Do Their Business Abroad is a collection of stories a little too goofy, a little too personal (and maybe a little too gross) to belong anywhere else. Latrines. Goat eyeballs. Pickpockets. Whimsy. Wisdom. And arson in the name of hygiene. Enjoy.
Author: Dillon Banerjee
Author: Dillon Banerjee
Author: Luke Fegenbush
Author: Dillon Banerjee
Author: Kelly Branyik
Author: Travis Hellstrom
Author: Tyler E. Lloyd
Author: Greg Alder
Author: Moritz Thomsen
Author: Molly Geidel
Author: Jake Fawson