Full Circle

I closed my service about three months ago.  To say that re-adjustment as been filled with ups and downs would only begin to describe the process.  I am saddened every day to be away from my dear friends in Mongolia, saddened to be acutely aware that I'm losing the language, and saddened to face such a profound time in my life with the growing fondness of a memory rather than the vividness of a life-changing experience. But I am overjoyed for Friday evenings at the park with my nephew, games of Monopoly with my parents, and birthday parties for my dearest friends' children.

All that being said, it appears things have come full circle and now I get to help others embark on the journey of a lifetime, to undertake the hardest job they'll ever love.  Pending paperwork and a security clearance, I have accepted a position as a Minneapolis-based Regional Field Recruiter with Peace Corps.  I am thrilled to be involved not only with an organization that gave me so much and I believe so fully in, but to now give back by setting up others for their service, guiding their path to adventure.

So here's to my next adventure!  And below is my condensation of the one so recently passed: