More peace corps!!!

Obama:

"To restore America's standing, I will call on our greatest resource - not our bombs, guns, or dollars - I will call upon our people. We will grow the Foreign Service to renew our commitment to diplomacy. We will double the size of the Peace Corps by its 50th anniversary in 2011. And we'll reach out to other nations to engage their young people in similar programs, so that we work side by side to take on the common challenges that confront all humanity...."

word.

so exciting!!!!!

I was looking through old journals today to find a blank one to take with me, and I saw this in one of the old ones:

Part of an entry from October 29th, 2003:

This was on my 'life list': "...Get BFA, join the peace corps, go to africa, study/observe/live in a rainforest, skydive, go to madagascar.... (etc. etc.)"

I basically can't believe how lucky I got. I've wanted to go there for a long time...something about it grabbed my attention at some point, and it became so important to me that it got on a life-long "to do" list. I literally could not have asked for a better assignment from Peace Corps. Seeing as I didn't have ANY say in my work assignment, and only a request (which could or could not have been granted) to be placed somewhere in the continent of Africa, I'd say I got pretty darn lucky in the end. Helping to protect one of the most bio-diverse places left on the planet? Living in Africa for 2 years for free? Please somebody pinch me... Thanks life... !!!