Nina Boe in the Balkans

Update We've now hit the 60 days mark -- I'll be at staging on September 21st! Location TBD.  What is staging? Staging is a couple to a few days that occurs right before departure to one's placement in the Peace Corps. From what I've seen for various cohorts before me, it seems to happen usually on the east coast. It's like the orientation before you go to your country and start your 10 weeks of Pre-Service Training (PST).  Also, today I received an email with some more onboarding tasks to do! I have to admit, I was excited enough that while we were given up to 2 weeks to do them, I did them all today... some boxes to check, things to update, deciding if I wanted certain forms or not, press-release related stuff, financial-related stuff, etc... all the fun! But now it's done and we wait again, haha. Countdown! Today's Ten Things So as mentioned previously , I thought to make a point to post every ten days...with 10 things I'm excited...

Hey everyone! I know it's been a little quiet, but some of that is due to little to report at this point in time. Updates : As posted previously, I've received medical clearance, so now it's all systems go! I did receive a few additional tasks that I've already done - tweaked my resume, wrote an aspiration statement about my expectations for my time of service, and a headshot for helping facilitate my in-country ID card. Pre-training orientation (or staging) is going to be on 9/21 ; location TBD - likely east coast. That's 70 days from today! Since then, I've been enjoying a beautiful Seattle summer! I've been perusing new (to me) Macedonian musicians on Youtube (I'll share a new one at the bottom of this post if you're interested) and also been working on studying some Macedonian! I have a copy of one of the only English language textbooks for Macedonian , and I have to admit, it is super comprehensive and really useful for self-instru...