Invited to South Africa!!!!!!!

I received my invitation for South Africa staging July 5th 2011!!!! My official job title is Resource Specialist, but from the description it appears I'll be teaching and teacher training. It's such a relief having my invitation in hand, but kind of daunting because of the amount of work involved now. I'm also pretty excited that I got to be the one to update the peacecorpswiki page with the staging date for south africa. So excited!! But now I have some work to do.. Yikes!

INVITED!!!!!

I've been invited to serve as a Peace Corps volunteer! I can't even tell you how exciting this news is for me. It's been almost exactly a year since I started my application.

I was at work yesterday about to teach a class when my phone rang and I saw the 202 area code. Of course my heart about jumped out of my chest and I answered and attempted to sound as composed as possible. I asked my placement officer to call back later when I would be able to talk. She did and I had my final placement interview which only lasted about 30 minutes. It was much more relaxed than my initial interview with just a few questions about why I switched universities twice and how supportive my family has been of my decision to apply. Other than my phone cutting out during the interview, it went pretty smoothly. She told me about a couple potential placements, one in Africa for science education leaving in July, one in Asia for community development leaving in July and one in Eastern Europe for community development leaving in July. Science education and Africa are my first choice, so she said she would be inviting me to that program. INVITING me! She said my invitation will be here in 7 to 10 days, but I'm hoping it gets here sooner. All of my medical paperwork was sent quickly so I can't imagine that my actual invitation would then be sent through regular mail. Fingers crossed that I'll know my country by Friday!