Thursday, September 22, 2011

Invitation Received...and I'm waiting again

At long last I have finally received an invitation. It arrived on Saturday and I got to pick it up and open it on Monday. I was too anxious. The only program I could see on PC wiki leaving for C/SA in late February was Honduras. This country has a 27month home stay. I cannot tell you how disinterested I am in a mandatory 2 year home stay. It may be the best thing ever but could, so easily, be the worst. It didn't take long for me to figure out my placement. The packaging wasn't quite perfect and I could see some of the invite letter through the envelope window. The words 'invite' and 'Rica' could both be seen. Hmm. I wonder what that could be? Perhaps, Kazakhstan Rica...or Bolivia Rica. Nope, neither. It was Costa Rica!! I know, you guessed it right. So did I. Kind of made opening the package a little anticlimactic. I was still very excited though. I've been to Costa Rica and loved it. I had no reservations about going back. On yesterday I emailed my acceptance and I'm waiting again. Waiting for it to be February 20 when I'm on a plane to staging. Departure is 8 months later than planned and I'm doing TEFL in stead of business advising but I'm ok with this. I will just be patient and work on my aspiration statement and getting a new passport. I've decided to only be patient until December though. At that point, I'm going to quit my job and bum around for two months...assuming that I can afford to be a bum for two months.