so very few things...

as wonderful as your toolkit changing from this...

to this...

fingers crossed! fingers crossed! please let the invite go out today! i'm not sure my anticipation can handle a three day weekend sitting on pins and needles...

invited... but waiting...

ah, peace corps, how you toy with my emotions.

we woke up to legal clearance on tuesday, and i got emotionally over excited.  could we be invited tomorrow, officially?

wednesday, i emailed our PO to see which company our invite would be sent through.  after much emailing, she discovers that we're legally cleared and she's mailing the invite tonight or tomorrow!

and now, today, our status says INVITED!

but alas, an email from our PO this morning says our invite is ready to go, except for some updated language needed for a description of one of our placements, as the training has changed somewhat.

we're now waiting 'a few days' for this information, when our invite will be mailed. twisted cruel fates, where at 5:20 am you tell me i'm invited and then sad email at 8:20 tells me i won't know where for a few more days... le sigh.

on a side note, we were asked if we could ride a bike...

lots of asian country researching this three day weekend... especially blogs from Cambodia...

cross your fingers our invitation is miraculously sent Friday!

we ARE invited!

oh, what a weekend.

i'm quite tired and inspired after a working weekend, and we've decided to see if we could still be invited for july 19.  it just seems impossible to get boomer to north carolina, packed, and mentally prepared in four days.

***

our PO says we're good to go for the 19th and she's glad we took some time to think about it.  as soon as we are legally cleared, she INVITING US!!!

we are invited?

"hey!"

"hi, where are you?"

"um, at the convention center, we just got here (us and thousands of others.) what's wrong? you ok?"

"yeah, i'm fine.  we're invited to the peace corps."

stunned silence.

"what?!?!"

apparently this morning our placement officer reviewed our files, called chris for final notes and told him we're invited, to asia in august.

it's surreal.  air, this is, i'm walking on air.

****

ah, yes, the email update.  our nomination is now actually leaving in july, so we have to make some decisions while she follows up with our legal hold.

chris now has an official new placement: youth development.

asia. july 1.

asia. july 19.

e. europe. sept. 22


i received this email, set up a phone call with chris and PO for 3 pm, and then sat through (a wonderful!) two hour luncheon for all staff at a convention for 11,000 education reformers.

chris was convinced that the philippines has been moved to july 1.  in our excitement, all thought to what it means that i'll need to work until june 27th at the earliest flies out the window.

if we can't leave in august, let's go as soon as we can!

after a brief five minute phone call, we accept july 1.  she'll be mailing it out next monday or tuesday.

we're invited?!

and there i was...

just waiting to have dinner with some peeps on friday night, and there it was:

"peace corps check in."

a request for an updated resume and a reminder that nothing is set in stone, and competition is quite high for invitations.

not exactly the soothing email you hope for, six months in.

chris and i spent four hours completely updating our resumes, heavy emphasis on all things education.  resumes have been returned, just shy of midnight.

contact from a placement officer could be approaching!