Its official. I have been nominated into the PEACECORPS. Into SUB SAHARAN AFRICA with a tentative departure date of OCTOBER 2012.
During my interview my recruiter said there were still positions open for the end of the year but that I would probs be leaving early 2013. Nope.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKK. I cant believe this is really happening.
I had to look up a map of Sub Saharan Africa. Its pretty much all of Africa, minus the north.
While at Purdue I had a great friends names Carissa Jae McKay (her blog: http://www.throughsmokeandfire.blogspot.com/) she too was nominated into Sub Saharan Africa and then when the official invite came, she was invited to the Middle East, into some country I have never heard of and cannot spell.
This is the only thing I feel called to do. I think I was made for this. I do not question. At a Joshua House party last week I was telling one of the boys about it and he said,
"Do you think God is calling you into the PeaceCorps?" I forget what I said but he alluded to the fact that "Wow, what a test of faith. Wouldn't such an extreme call make you question? Falter? Doubt?" And honestly, no it doesn't at all. Theres nothing I've been more sure of, no direction I've been so drawn to.
It occurred to me this week while walking on campus. All the crap I hate about Purdue, (I love Purdue) but this whole time. The fact that I left and went to Ireland in search of something more. The fact that I've NEVER felt like I fit in to the Ag school and spent years trying...this is what its all been for.
THIS IS WHAT ITS ALL BEEN FOR. I'm going into the Ag sector and I have no idea what I'll be doing but it will most likely be education.
There are those on staff at Purdue that hate the different path. They want you out in four years. They want you to teach Ag. Education in Indiana. They want you here, and they've never understood my drive to be anywhere but. For a long time I've felt so misunderstood, too different for this community, and then bam, your dreams come true and it was all worth it.
I say this now. Talk to me in 10 months when I'm living in a mud hut with no electricity or running water.
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I love that you too are following your dreams, outside of what some folks wanted or pushed for while majoring in Ag. It's soooo worth going for what you feel pulled to do and a lot more fulfilling! I wish you well and will be thinking about you come this October! So excited for ya, keep a journal, would like to hear stories!
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