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Peace Corps Gets Wired FROM THE DIRECTOR TIMES Glad to be here PEACE CORPS DIRECTOR Mark D. Gearan I'm surc that all of you were excited when you received your EDITOR-IN-CHIEF invitation to scrve as a Peace Corps Voluntcer. The people you would Sarah Botr meer, the new culture you would experience, the chance to really do something good in the world-it all waited for you in the Peace Corps. MANAGING EDITOR Well, that's exactly how fclt when President Clinron asked me to be I Patric~aCunningham rhe ncw I'eace Corps Director. 1 couldn't wait to be part of this organi- zation, which has been such a positive influence in our country-and in COW EDITORS so many other countries-for 34 years. It's an honor to have this job because Ibelieve in the work Michael Chapman - all of you are doing- around Melissa Johns r?. j the wbr~d. Charis Warchal The biggest part of my job will be ro make your service INTERNS in the Peace Corps a Amy Trenkle rewarding one for you and for thc communitics where Aron Katz you live and work. PRINTING Rose Green w possible in the months Pre*identClintlln c,,nkru~ul.tex ahead, and Ihopc I'll get Peure Corps Director, Murk Ceuran. the &ance to meet many of you. In the meantime, I hope you'll write and let me know about your work and your experi- ences. Hearing from you will help me a great dcal with my new job, and then I'll be better able to help you with yours. The Peace Corps Times is a quarterly publication of the Peace Corps. Views expressed in the Peace Corps Times are those of the indiv~dualwriters and do not necessarily represent the offi- cial position of the Peace Corps. The Director has determined that publica- tion of this periodical is necessary in Mark Gearan ( the transaction of the public business. Peace Corps Director Use of funds for printing this periodi- cal has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget, U.S. Government. P.S. Send some photos so we can see how you're doing our there! Inquiries and letters should be sent to: Peace Corps Times, 1990 K Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20526, or [email protected]. I.ettcn.s to the Editor .............................. 4 Nulrx Ara~undthe \\'.,~ld ............ fi Mnrrb Mvdricrr ,riouci Lo~~tb;1101 for frauel nher COScrrg; Srei,,~the poriil>ilitiei for blind Moroccan itndrnlr: Hondn,ror I'ulnnleer, niokr o coloirnl nrchl,oc~,lc~gicnldirroucq: nrld nwrc. TU~,.I.-?............................................... 28 The 1,itenrar nroker rbc Pence Carps cricrrld n little r,rraller, nrrd ,ZCW ICE pabli~arions. I'l.ukrllrn Updulc~ :I:! News /rrr,n Inforn8oriorr Rerorrrrer Manqpe,?renI, rl,r O//ice of Mediinl Services nrrd Vulurrreer & Features staff I'nyroli .<ervicer. ................................. Krrier." ................................................ 37 Sowin&!hds I(J Ilmr~gblonCob~,rn, RPCV wrirrr seer A~?ccrira the qcr ofon M-"ear-alrl Nepnlcre BY PA.I.KICI,\ CUNNINC;HAM-S~~/~?nord?irlg lo the beor. Edrrrntiurl Volrlriteers ore the forl,zdorior! ofthe Peore Corps ,niriio,>. uiomon. ItPC\' l'rq,l:le .................................... :lH 11's Your 1Molre I4 ~mradillor,j~,,~~lc bids, orid ronnl,y ,,nuic diva- BY SARAH BOTT-Quiet 8urekend ,rrghtr u 1,rrle too quirt? Rernrrecc rbore cl,ildh<*,d gnnrei or Texan Kinky Frisd,nrrmn's li/c as n nrystcry iuriter go1 lennr ronte new ones /or o friorrlly inrrodurriurr !#, the rarrmr~~nify hr rron wrrb his Peace Corpr rervicc 61 Romeo. It's u Sirties Thing 18 Lire~ili~~Peaw COPPX .............. .. ..... 40 BY ~~LLISS~JOHNS-S~~~~,~ \'olunfrcrr cxhrbir the rn.e spirit of ndve,in<re orzd rhmu their Exte,tdirry yonr I'earr Corpr ieruicc ro t~r?lio?rnl yulmnger r01lea~~~g.e~a rhhrg or rcoo. bmdqn,onor. Remenabruneex................................. 42 Cheap Tricks ITVS ,.uci~~eR~V,WJ~~O nvd Dorrald \W,r.r by PATRICIA CUNNINGHAAI-Call ir ingentriry or just old-/orhioned chcopne<i. rberc PCVr hove rro qrroltr,r nhor,t rbnring their ,ricks /or litriwg the good lifc on o tigl7r budget. Plus, Yl,urContributions! Acrolizder rid udz,et,tnrrs from ,lie Dominirnn Rep,,61ic. Ca,,xeroon. Tlmibnd. o~rdhepl. ON THE COI'UR-Melanie h'ruon. PC\' Se!rcgol. r,nlorkr the <,triosir). of brr rrnde,8rr. Letters Credit Where Credi~la Due Identifying the ONCE AGAIN PCVS ARE TKYING source of my to get credit for doing something anger allows me Africans have been doing for years. to find pragmat- (RE: "99 Bottles of Beer In the Wall" ic solutions (say, Notes From Around the World, Winter working toward 1995). Although, I think it's great that stronger friend- the PCV iri Namibia cleaned up his ships with lily __--- arca of bottles, the idea of building a neighbors). Ru~hScbmm end lnev Enelivln clinxx house from beer cans and bottles has Sure, this is rrcngnize inter.nntiunal \\'#rmen'r been a very common practice by host not easy, but if you're going to deal Day in Guinea. country nationals for years. with your anger by strapping on 3 Walkman, you're going to go through Peace Corps to learn from and take Jerry Koontz a lot of batteries over the years and, part in a new culture, not to be angered [email protected] indeed, the rest of your life. In fact, by it. why bothcr with the Walkman-just Keked Omby An~er head for your nearest alcohol vendor. Tonya Bl~ckler YOUR ARTICLE "MANAGNG YOUR Progress with intractable age-old Gabon Anger" (Winter 1995) came closc to problems such as anger require contin- covering my only criticism of the Peace uous re-examination and is only slow- A 1,ump wrG,nl Ibr Suntu Corps Times: the pollyanna tone with ly achieved. And if that sounds like it YOU HAVE OPENED UP A MASSNE regard to PCVs. comes straight out of your Peace Corps can of worms by publishing both the Usually I'CVs arc presented in such Handbook, that's because it does. article "Santa Visits Micronesia" (Fall a kind, sensirivc, cooperative, unselfish 1994) and thc editorial "Santa Doesn't way that I wish I was in that Peace Glenn Heller Belong" (Winter 1995) in which PCV Corps, rather than the one Ispent the Solomon Islands Michael Aurele condemns PCV Gloria past two years with. Baily's charitable actions. So to make this criticism construc- I APPRECIATED THE ARTICLE Mr. Aurele is correct that Peace rive, I'd suggest more articles pointing "Managing Your Anger" and found Corps should be promoting self-suffi- out improper examples of PCV con- myself easily relating to the feelings ciency. However, has he the right to duct. Perhaps somc people (PCVs) expressed in it. One thing I have condemn the actions of another would see themselves in a different learned and would like to add is thc Volunteer? In this case, 1 believe he light. benefits of doing something nice for does not. yourself to calm anger. Taking a little I currently serve in the Central Ron Seibel time our whcn you nccd it to replace African Kcpublic in a small village Kazakhstan tension with comfort can work won- called Baoro. I've been hcre two years ders. Chewing thar entire pack of gum and made numerous friendships that THE mncu w~ml~~ml~YOUR your mother mailed you, locking your- will stay with me for thc rest of my life. Anger" is appropriate in any issue of self in your house for an hour to read I've found it difficult and rather the Peace Corps Times, but Iwas sur- your favorite comic book again, using patronizing to tell my friends who prised to find the management sugges- nvo buckets of water to take your work in the fields and live in mud- tions to he both superficial and con- bath, or simply laying under a mosqui- walled, straw-roofed houses that they trary to thc ideals of Peace Corps. to net while looking at old photos and can't have the things 1 do because they "Short-circuiting" your anger by having a good hard cry to the tunes of first must be self-sufficient. There are "thinking of something unrelated" a back home band-it doesn't take no "toys" in Baoro outside of empty sounds like avoidance, nor a solution. much to relieve our aching emotions at tomato sauce cans. Even if they niagi- If 1 become angry whcn the mail times. A little self-pampering niay be cally find money to buy gifts with, doesn't come, it's not because the mail is all you need to go back out and face there are no gifts to purchase! late but because Iwant contact with me the world that seemed so cruel only Over the last nvo years Ihave seen friends and famil!: because I am lonely. moments earlier. After all, we joined several development organizations 4 PEACF. CORPS TIMES attempt to help CAR in different ways. Mwre Appluuru for iteejcline There were four main objectives to Most are shooting for the goal of "sus- THE WINTER 1995 EDITION OF this projecr: celebrate women and their tainability," a very wise and worthwhile rhe Peace Corps Tinles is nice, interest- contribution to society, come together goal. No one likes dependency, least of ing, and slick. Estonian volunteer orga- in a relaxed social setting and speak all host-country nationals. However, if nizations would be jealous if they English, interest a World-Wise school we find ourselves with the means to give knew there were even a question of in corresponding with us by "introduc- our friends gifts they would otherwise what percentage of recycled paper it tion" with our paintings, and to bring probably never enjoy-is there really so was printed on.
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