Dear Friends and Family,

As you know, if you extend, Peace Corps graciously pays for a month long trip home.

Now, if I was on top of it, I would email these dates out to you, but that probably will not happen until I am about to board the plane, so...here they are. I am all about doing PC presentations and/ or recruitment stuff, so sign me up and I will build my schedule around it.


May 9th

Leave Baku (around 4 a.m.) and arrive in Anchorage around 4 p.m. (time differences...eek).

May 17th

Leave Anchorage (on noon flight) and arrive in Nome about an hour and a half later.

May 28th

Leave Nome (morning flight) and arrive at JFK the next day (early a.m.)

June 11th

Head back to the land of fire.

Top 10 Ways to Blow a Good Hour (or Two)

1. Read the entire Hunger Games trilogy [link];
2. Listen to HowStuffWorks.com podcasts [link];
3. Finish off a chapter of the Odyssey audiobook;
4. Read the Huffington Post online [link];
5. Read People.com [link];
6. Bake peanut butter chocolate chip cookies;
7. Get lost at Etsy [link];
8. Hand wash your laundry;
9. Hand wash your sheets; or,
10. Clean your apartment (and dust for cockroaches).

Novruz Novruz Novruz