Spring 2009: Attend PC informational meetings, begin seriously contemplating service.
May 2009: Graduate, decide to apply to PC.
July 15, 2009: Finalize electronic application, including recommendations, essays, transcript, etc.
August 10, 2009: Interview in ATL. Nominated that day for English Education in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), departure date of Sept 2010
January 2010: Mail entire health packet in after numerous appts (dental with xrays, physical with labs, even eye exam and glasses frame measurements)... took a while what with no health insurance and all
Online toolkit updated to read that basically the Office of Medical Services (OMS) has received everything but will not look at it unless I'm nominated to leave in the next four months. So I wait.
Last week of April 2010: Update! The OMS is currently reviewing my file!
May 26, 2010: Contact my recruiter and the OMS-- gently ask how long I can expect medical review to take. They reply that OMS mailed me a letter on April 26. Never received it, so they fax it. It's requesting a secondary simple lab.
June 3, 2010: Get lab done and results faxed in that day.
June 21, 2010: Medically cleared! Letter in mail and email from Placement Officer (PO) to confirm. I am told that I can plan for an invite to come 6 weeks- 4 months before departure.
July 1, 2010: Send updated resume and list of volunteer activities from the past year.
July 6, 2010: Receive letter from Education Desk, asking for my availability for a program that leaves in mid-August for an English-speaking country in Africa. Immediately check out the wiki and narrow it down to, probably, Namibia on August 16.
July 7: Reply that I am available and willing to leave earlier than my late-September nomination.
July 9: Receive invitation packet: Namibia, August 17.
July 11: Officially accept invitation.
July 12: Send updated resume, aspiration statement.
July 15: Last day of work in SC.
July 24: Move home to VA.
August 15: I will leave ORF for Philly; staging lasts two days, then I'll head off to Windhoek for three months of training, during which time I receive my official site location for the following two years.
July 9: Receive invitation packet: Namibia, August 17.
July 11: Officially accept invitation.
July 12: Send updated resume, aspiration statement.
July 15: Last day of work in SC.
July 24: Move home to VA.
August 15: I will leave ORF for Philly; staging lasts two days, then I'll head off to Windhoek for three months of training, during which time I receive my official site location for the following two years.
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