Just Perfect . . .
Working as an international developmental worker abroad isn’t always easy. Life, as it always does, is bound to throw you some curve balls. However, when things happen at home, whether they be good or bad, involving your family, friends, or the life you left stateside, it will often lead to a complicated feeling of nostalgia seasoned with a little regret for having left. Logging onto facebook and seeing that your friends are getting engaged, moving into new apartments, and advancing their respective careers can be detrimental to your own journey as an overseas development worker. Realizing that the world that you left and the one you currently live are no longer congruent is something that you just get you use to. This past Saturday news from the homestead had me wondering about a lot of things. It lead me to question my move to Colombia and extension for another year with the Peace Corps . It had me thinking about the life I would have had, if I had stayed stateside. It had m...