Something’s Missing

I feel like I have posted this image before on my blog…

Well maybe you noticed but the cycle ends after 27 months.

Here I am currently at month 28 and confused about what I should be feeling. 

Now I never based my service off this cycle but it was a good reference to turn to when I felt crazy around month 14 and realized that a lot of my fellow Volunteers felt the same and there were reasons why: a lack to support, disappointment in ones projects and service, and withdrawal.

In my mind it is the final quarter… The last inning… The kick off in a World Cup final… The final countdown…

 It is time to mobilize and implement activities.  It is time to write my description of service.  It is time to plan my post-PC trip to Cape Town.  It is time to perfect my resume and apply for jobs.  It is time to figure out where I will spend a fraction of my sweet readjustment allowance…

Hello Target/TOMS Partnership!

This sounds so easy but it is quite the contrary.

Everyday I think about what the future holds and that had I not extended I would have been home. 

I could have been at Tomale’s Bay eating oysters with the family. 

I could have been taking long hot showers although with the drought in California I’d probably still be bucket bathing.

I could have been making my specialty banana and spinach shakes.

I would have been at spin class with Ramon and the gang.

But I should be here.

There is work to be done at In Movement and in Uganda.  I have a Youth Leadership Summit and Re-Usable Menstrual Pad workshops to complete.  I have camps to coordinate.  I still very much have a life here that requires my commitment and undivided attention.

Plus I have places to travel to still and new restaurants to try.

And I have 94 days to do it.

I decided to close my service prior to National Camps meaning that from December 2^nd to 4^th I will be at the office completing paperwork, having exit interviews, and double checking that I am medically good to go.  Once I gong out and officially become a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer I will give up a little more of my time and head to either National BUILD or National GLOW to support my fellow PCVs and serve in the role as one of the In Movement dream team members. 

Then on December 13^th or 14^th I fly out to Cape Town for that long awaited trip to wine country, Table Top Mountain, and penguin beaches, all in time to return back to California for the holidays.