Ok, so I basically failed on the timeline. Sorry guys!
Basically, I totally forgot about my blog for awhile. I'll try to sum up my timeline since my medical process. Note that my medical clearance was expedited because there was a trial program in DC where the PC provided a doctor that would take care of all of the tests (not dental or blood) at once. Basically, I was medically cleared in October and officially invited at the very end of October. I sent in my acceptance on November 1, 2010. You will be an application update which will say that you have been accepted, but of course doesn't tell you to where so if you have to work two jobs like me, you have to wait until late at night to find out where you are going! The packet is full of information and forms to fill out and send back in. Basically, once you fill everything out and send it back, you go into radio silence from the PC. Its a bit nerve racking not hearing anything for months!
I finally got an email on January 7th, 2011 clarifying that our group, TEFL, would be combined with Community Development and Youth Development for Orientation/Staging to make one of the biggest groups in PC history! That's pretty cool. We got the official email with all of our Staging info, plane ticket info, ect on February 18th, 2011. It is such a relief to know that I have a ticket and I'm really going. I've joined a Peace Corps Group 41 on Facebook and it's really cool to talk with people I'll be with in Ukraine in under a month.
Staging/Orientation will be in Washington, DC on March 21st. We'll do orientation stuff all day, spend the night, and then more orientation on Saturday and then we are off to the airport! We go through Frankfurt, Germany and then will end up in Kyev, Ukraine.
I just moved back to my parents house in Atlanta and it just made everything so real. I have three weeks to buy everything I'll need for Ukraine and get all of my affairs in order. I really can't believe that I'm going to be living in another country in just a few weeks.
I'll try to post regularly with photos and everything so you can all stay in touch and updated on what I'm doing!
PLEASE leave me posts and let me know that you're reading! If you want a post card, post or email me your address! I can't receive any packages in the mail until I move to my site (June 16, 2011) so I'll post more about sending me stuff (which you totally should do :) later. That's all for now!
<3
Erin
