The Long Wait

So, we are heading into the final stage of the Peace Corps application process. Our applications have been submitted, recommendations sent, and now our physicals have been done. We are now enduring the far-too-long period of bureaucratic review. We are told to wait for 4-6 weeks while the six or seven forms we submitted are reviewed by their medical staff. In the meantime, we can expect no communication, no word on the progress of our review and absolulutely no information about where we will be assigned. Grrrr...

For those of you just tuning in, we do have some information about what we will be doing. We know the following:

1. We will be in Asia. This means we can go to China (not bloody likely), Bangladesh (not too crazy about it), Mongolia (neat!), Thailand (super cool!), or The Philippines (it would be nice to see the P.I. again).
2. Chris will be teaching English to high school students, and Malinda will be working in youth development with those same students.
3. We will be together.
4. We will leave on August 13th of 2005.
5. We will be gone for 27 months, so we should return November of 2007.
   
6. That's about it.

The Peace Sorps is supposedly really full right now. They have had many more couples apply than there are assignments to fill, but we got a break and the PC actually combined two existing singles assignments to create a place for us! We can't wait...

As soon as information becomes available, it will be posted. There might be a long stretch of nothing from now until we know something from the head office about our medical review. Hang in there!

Weeks until we leave: 13