Medical Clearance

 I received this cryptic message on my toolkit on Friday:

 Wait for a letter?? What! What does that mean...A decision has been made. Why didn't they just give me a nice gray check mark? Am I not qualified? Am I deferred? WHY PC WHY??? So I tapped into my patience and decided to enjoy the wait. I would stroll out to the mailbox on Monday and check...

WELL...my patience escaped me so I did a quick search for "A decision has been made regarding your medical clearance" and found blogs of actual volunteers- which means they were CLEARED! I kept reading that they received an e-mail from placement. Well, if I am qualified, where is my e-mail? My thoughts raced as I contemplated my life after being denied medical clearance. AmeriCorps? Graduate school?

THEN not two minutes later I check my e-mail AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! "Greetings from the Assessment & Placement Office at Peace Corps Headquarters in Washington, DC!"  It's official, I have received medical clearance!!

So, now I must submit an updated resume and my updated transcript. Oh, BTW, I graduated! My final GPA is 3.94...not as high as I hoped, but high enough! Now that I am officially in the 'placement' phase of this process, I looked up staging dates. (peacecorpswiki.com has so much info) I read about someone who received an invitation to Burkina Faso departing October 13th...I would have to receive my invitation by September 6th in order to go there....AH I need to submit everything TODAY! I know my dad won't like it, but it looks like Africa is where I'll be headed. I JUST missed the dates for Samoa and Tonga. :-( Sad... I was really hoping for the Pacific Islands, but wherever I go I know I will learn a lot and make a positive impact.