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Stoner Boner posted:I have been nominated for a spot in Sub Saharan Africa, and assuming all goes well with the medical check, I'll be leaving in June. I know it varies wildly but anyone who has been volunteering could throw in their 2 cents. Depends where in Africa... If it happens to be Rwanda I can help you somewhat.
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CronoGamer posted:What really got me about this, and what I found jarring every time I was able to step back and look at it from a non-PC perspective, was how incredibly comfortable the GIRLS were talking about their poo poo. Like they would openly talk to anyone in earshot about color, texture, consistency, frequency.... just so utterly bizarre in a typical "girl" context. This applies somewhat to just serving overseas... I'm not in the PC, but with State, and well, yeah. I don't know what I have but, there will be a week or two of nothing but the runs, followed by the reverse. Not bad enough yet to go to a hospital (not in my country) to have it looked at. I also came down with a sudden 104 fever in 30 minutes. I seriously went from being fine and chipper to chills where I walked down to the med unit just shaking. Two malaria tests came back negative, and the fever broke after 24 hours. I'm still enjoying the Mefloquine dreams however.
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FYI, the Brussels' airport has a train nearby that you can take into the city center. I was on a 24 hour layover and did that on my way to Rwanda (working for State, not PC).
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Full Battle Rattle posted:if you've ever served in the peace corps it can disqualify you from obtaining a security clearance. Also, there's PC staff with security clearances.
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a distorted reality posted:Graduating with a B.A. in August. Departing for Peru (is this considered Posh Corps?) in September as a community health volunteer. It's going to be a quick turnaround but certainly not a boring one. Not sure if it's posh or not, but I loved the food in Peru.
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Slaan posted:I actually did that for the first week or so of training, too. Malaria drugs are basically Yeah, those pills do odd things. I stopped taking mine.
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until you are used to them.
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CronoGamer posted:Mine never hosed me up while awake, but they gave me some pretty amazing dreams for several months running. But yeah-- I think of the 25 people who COSed with me, maybe 5 at most had consistently taken their meds the whole time through. The rest of us had to take additional pills to counteract the possibility of having gotten asymptomatic malaria that was lurking in our livers. Well yeah, it wasn't the day time that was the issue, it was the loving awesome/crazy/vivid/horrible dreams that were the problem.
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Pocket DeSade posted:I know in Ukraine, some volunteers always seemed to have friends in FS. As with many things in the FS, "it depends".
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Red Crown posted:I was going to pull the trigger on my application today when I just happened to find out that not only does the Peace Corps disallow people in or close to the intelligence community, the intelligence community also disallows people from the Peace Corps. Supposedly the government is so concerned with the image of the Peace Corps that they're willing to pass on people who might have gained language skills and foreign area expertise. Can anyone verify this? You can still work for pretty much the entire Foreign Service cadre of agencies.
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