Sunday, March 05, 2006

Peace Corps Turns 45

I spent yesterday evening at the JFK Presidential Library for a 45th anniversary celebration of Peace Corps. The video that Peace Corps has created for the occasion can be found here. It was a nice time. The highlight was that the first ever Peace Corps groups were in attendance (from 1961) and they gave a nice send-off to the very newest Peace Corps group, who are on an airplane to Uganda as I write this.

Speaking with the new group was very nice and there was a good part of me that was jealous of the fact that they are going to be in Uganda for the next two years. There were four of us from my group that attended (Dawn, Paul and January were the others), and it was nice to be able to speak about the country and what to expect to all of the eager and expectant future volunteers.

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