well this will probably be the last post. I have less than a month left of my Peace Corps service and I CANNNNOOOTTT believe it. It's so close that Jen's already left! How is that possible?! I haven't been doing much work because the school year just started and during the summer we just focus on summer camps.
I was working on Camp Jaikoporâ, a national youth summer camp, that focused on empowering youth to be health promoters and peer educators focusing on topics like sexual and reproductive health. It was a smashing success! I could not have asked for it to go any better! I was the logistics coordinator and I loved my position, I was literally running around at some points but it was all worth it. The kids that other PCVs brought were so inspiring and fired up about our initiative that it just gave me so much hope for the future of this country. I can easily say it was the highlight of my service, which is incredible that it was one of the last things I participated in!
I've basically been packing up my life, which seems impossible. There's so much of Paraguay that I want to bring home but simply don't have the space. ugh. I guess I'll have to come back someday. fine.
My life the last few months has been a complete and utter mess, due to some personal things, but it has really shown me my own personal strength and it's also shown me how wonderful, fantastic, incredible, outstanding, kind, and all those other words, my friends here in PC are. They dropped everything they were doing, literally, and came to be by my side and support me. I couldn't have done a lot of things without them. I'm so grateful for these people and this experience.
It's so cliché but Peace Corps is 100% a life changing experience. there are ups and downs, of course. but they are all worth it. I've grown more in these last 2 years as a person, than I have my whole life. It's an unforgettable journey and I would not have given it up for the world.
