Peace Corps may be "the toughest job you'll ever love" but you don't always have to learn that the hard way. This is the handbook we wish someone would have given us, something no one has... More > provided before: a companion handbook that allows you to learn from the experiences of outstanding Volunteers and catalog your own experience from the very beginning of your service. This is a guide and journal in an easy-to-use and easy-to-write-in handbook designed to be with you before you join, while you serve and after you come back from your Peace Corps experience. Proceeds from this handbook go to fund projects led by Peace Corps Volunteers throughout the world.< Less
Peace Corps may be "the toughest job you'll ever love" but you don't always have to learn that the hard way. This is the handbook we wish someone would have given us, something no one has... More > provided before: a companion handbook that allows you to learn from the experiences of outstanding Volunteers and catalog your own experience from the very beginning of your service. This is a guide and journal in an easy-to-use and easy-to-write-in handbook designed to be with you before you join, while you serve and after you come back from your Peace Corps experience. Proceeds from this handbook go to fund projects led by Peace Corps Volunteers throughout the world.< Less
Peace Corps may be "the toughest job you'll ever love" but you don't always have to learn that the hard way. This is the handbook we wish someone would have given us, something no one has... More > provided before: a companion handbook that allows you to learn from the experiences of outstanding Volunteers and catalog your own experience from the very beginning of your service. This is a guide and journal in an easy-to-use and easy-to-write-in handbook designed to be with you before you join, while you serve and after you come back from your Peace Corps experience. Proceeds from this handbook go to fund projects led by Peace Corps Volunteers throughout the world.< Less
A novel based on the autobiographical experiences of the author's Peace Corps service in Ecuador. During his service, he worked in a small loan program for artisans and micro-entrepreneurs in a... More > marginal community in Guayaquil, a port city on the Pacific coast of Ecuador. During this time he wrote small loans ($20.00 up), lived through a coup, bouts of amebic dysentery, three bus accidents, an armed robbery, innumerable fiestas and several faked marriages. The book is based on these experiences and others.< Less
A novel based on the autobiographical experiences of the author's Peace Corps service in Ecuador. During his service, he worked in a small loan program for artisans and micro-entrepreneurs in a... More > marginal community in Guayaquil, a port city on the Pacific coast of Ecuador. During this time he wrote small loans ($20.00 up), lived through a coup, bouts of amebic dysentery, three bus accidents, an armed robbery, innumerable fiestas and several faked marriages. The book is based on these experiences and others.< Less
These humorous, often poignant, writings of a Kansas City woman who spent two years living in a Carpathian Mountain village will make you wish you had joined the Peace Corps when you had the chance!
A book of poems centered around my experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger, West Africa. These poems deal with the volunteer experience, the experience of day-to-day village life, and the... More > clash between the two. They are by turns, bawdy, sad, and as surreal as the Peace Corps experience itself. A number of these poems have been published in the following journals; pLopLop, INPOSSE, Five Fingers Review, Flying Island, Bathtub Gin. Others were published in Kilhohertz Country, a chapbook of poems published by GeekSpeak Unique Press--Dan Grossman< Less
