Caitlin Navratil, 131 YinD In the style of “Green Eggs and Ham” by Dr. Seuss Do you like mold, sweat, and bugs? I do not like mold, sweat, and bugs! Would […]
Mold, Sweat, and Bugs
Notes to Self: 6 Ways to be a Better PCV Youth Facilitator
Carissa Anderson, 130 YinD One day after my second camp of the month, I wrote this on the Notes application on my iPhone while sitting quietly at a table full of teachers. […]
Plai Ruaa
Neil Pickus, 131 YinD July 2019 was perhaps the most transient and fleeting month of my life so far. I was in and out (mostly out) of my “regular” life at site, […]
Long Days, Field Trips and Weigh Stations
Eric Mills, TESS 130 Ah the long day; how requisite, how essential. Truly it is the thread that binds, the paper clip that fastens, the uh… stuff they add to the stickers […]
Still Tamada
Natalie Garro, 129 TESS The days have blended together, hours slipping by like warm sap, each moment dripping until my cup is so full, I spend my evenings releasing the day – […]
Untitled Poem
Stephen Bubenheim, 131 TESS Wake up. Hard bed and bones creak. Walk to the fridge; a dead lizard inside. How’d you manage that? Sugary powdered not-coffee. Ants in the water heater. Ants […]
Group 131 Yearbook: Words of Appreciation
Counterparts and Community of Group 131 Every year, during the first few months of service, Peace Corps staff visit the new group of Peace Corps Volunteers at their sites to see how […]
Home
Natalie Heinitz, 131 YinD Home is the Nationals’ radio broadcast while I make breakfast and Home is Kacey’s “Slow Burn” while I stretch away the stress and Home is reading for hours […]
Beauty Standards
Shannon Murphy, 131 TESS So, my students found my Facebook and it’s nothing I am ashamed of. But of course, they find the photos of me playing model in New York City, […]
Growing Pains
Caitlin Navratil, 131 YinD I stand, sweating (as ususal), as my counterpart loads the car. Our drive was going to be an absurd twelve hours from Reconnect back to Ngim, so there […]
Never Thought I’d Be Into ___ Until I Joined Peace Corps
Check out what a few Sticky Rice staff members thought they would never be into until they joined Peace Corps. Ali Talwar, 130 TESS I never thought I’d be a proponent of […]
A Salutation
Nhi Le, 130 TESS I could sense it as I rounded the bend. It had been two days since I last saw his spiky gray hair and heard his lilted, “Wadii Kru!” […]
What’s Next
Ali Talwar, 130 TESS People have asked me about “what’s next” since I told them I was joining the Peace Corps. After I had gone through so many steps to even get […]
Apple Pie
Roshawn Hollie, 131 YinD I looked at a million words the rhyme with “goodbye.” The best rhyme I found was “apple pie.” If I compared this experience to apple pie, I would […]
End of the Honeymoon Period
Daylisha Reid, 130 YinD It happened to me. All of the things I refused to believe could. People said, “Enjoy it while it lasts,” and I thought to myself, “Please, that could […]
