Peace Corps Thailand Group 129 When I used to go on longer camping trips, we’d always end the last night with a special little ceremony. We’d each have a couple minutes to […]
Group 129 Yearbook: Taking and Leaving
A Guide to Being a Politically Engaged Peace Corps Volunteer
McKenzie Paterson and Yaneth Peña Sometimes as Peace Corps Volunteers it feels like we’re powerless in making an impact on the things happening back home in the United States. We read the news, […]
Make Meditation Work for You
Cat Nightengale, 129 YinD Meditation always sounds like a good idea when I’m stressed out or feeling off, but when I sit down in a “quiet” room, I start to notice how […]
Surviving the Post-Reconnect Blues
Presented by PSDN (Peer Support Diversity Network) The period following Reconnect, a 10-day training that happens during our 7th month in Thailand, can be rough for many Peace Corps Volunteers. In an effort […]
Homeward Bound: All You Need to Know About Sending Your Peace Corps Pets Home
Caitlin Roman, 128 RPCV Peace Corps Pets. Some of us have em, some of us want em, some of us would ET without them. Whether you’ve gained a furry friend as a […]
Engaged to Single in the Peace Corps
Kaori Cierra Alonso Yamamoto, 129 TESS January 1st, 2017 (New Year’s day) and only 4 days before Peace Corps staging, my boyfriend of 8 years proposed to me. I was thrown off, […]
Lessons from My Thai Aerobics Class
Barbara Allen, 129 TESS Things I am learning in my Thai ladies aerobics class: The distinction between humility and shame. I think it starts with the clothes. Here, they are sort of […]
ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY SUPREMELY IMPERFECT DAYS
Christalynn Hamer, 130 TESS The best days are the imperfect ones. The ones where you’ve had enough egg on your face to make a couple servings of kai giao; the ones where […]
A Culture of Fear
Clarence Say, 129 TESS All quotes in italics are taken from The Courage to Teach by Parker J. Palmer. As a student, I was in too many classrooms riddled with fear, the […]
Single and Surviving
Alex Cotrufello, 129 YinD Hello, readers. I suspect most of you taking the time to read this article are currently serving as volunteers in Thailand, we’ve probably already talked about this topic […]
World Cap Map
Josh Kaufmann, RPCV Group 128 During the last few months of my service I began working with a brilliant teacher who encouraged me to put into action a final project that had […]
Always Say Yes
Daylisha Reid, 130 YinD Always say yes! It goes hand and hand with our Peace Corps Volunteer Community Integration Goal. Asked to attend a community event? Say yes! Asked to go […]
40 Days Without Social Media
Audrey Ardine, 129 TESS Rewind to about a year ago when I was still in training. I heard about all the downtime volunteers would have at site and I told myself it […]
Group 129 Yearbook: What We’ve Learned So Far
Peace Corps Thailand Group 129 This quarter our staff voted on the theme, “What have you learned from Peace Corps?” We reached out to all 49 volunteers of Group 129 and asked […]
The Songkran Survivor
Tiffany Fitzgerald, 129 TCCS Tis the season of Songkran. I remember being fresh into site in Satun and not quite anticipating a whole lot of celebration (my site is predominately Muslim) but […]
