A little bit of what to expect

About an hour ago, I checked my internet and saw this message from Facebook:

Jennifer added you as a friend on Facebook. We need to confirm that you know Jennifer in order for you to be friends on Facebook.

Jennifer says, "PC Morocco Invitee.".

So I added her, went to her FB page and saw this:

Employer:Peace Corps
Position:TEFL VOLUNTEER--REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA
Time Period:June 2008 - September 2008
Description:The Russians took care of that one...

Wow! Then I wrote this on her wall:

"Hey! You are one of us: a special kind of RPCV: Refugee PCV. I got kicked out of Bolivia in September... and Kathleen Sifer was our Country director! She has great, but she had a lot of bad luck. Did you ever meet her? She was CD in Georgia not too long ago And you said you're going to Morocco. I was there once and it's the best. & do you have a friend in Bolivia now?"

Not too long thereafter, she messaged me:

Jennifer : Strange world, eh?
Ben yep!

Jennifer :There will be another Refugee pcv from georgia going to morocco too, btw
Ben: one of my friends Pat is transferring to Armenia you were evacuated there, right?

Jennifer: Yep
Ben : what did you think?

Jennifer : Armenia holds a special place in my heart. But being holed up in a hotel for a month under crummy circumstances makes it hard to be objective

Ben : even worse: some of the Georgia evacuees were finalizing paperwork to come to Bolivia the week we were kicked out

Jennifer : I know!
Ben: if they had come... it would have been a bad thing to go through 2x

Jennifer: Another Geo evacuee was about to go to Macedonia on the 9th of march
Ben : i wanted to transfer to Madagascar
and they evacuated i believe you were in georgia half a year?

Jennifer : then on the 11th they evacuated
I meant madagascar when I wrote macedonia
Ben : wow. it's bad' haha... in my mind, i thought... OH NO! Macedonia too?!?

Jennifer: No, Macedonia isn't evacuating
Ben : are you doing Youth dev?

Jennifer: yeah
Ben: i asked you about a person on your wall that wrote about Bolivia. what's the story there?

Jennifer : My friend is teaching english in peru and had to go to bolivia to renew her visa

Jennifer: So how many bolivia volunteers took new assignments?
Ben : we'll talk more again. if you dont mind, id like to put the first part of this conversation on my blog. it's descriptive of what to look forward to

Jennifer: ok
So how many bolivia volunteers took new assignments?
Ben: half
Jennifer: Cool. Well take care!

Ben: about 1/3 did immediately
then some more are reenrolling now

Jennifer : nice
Ben: the other half returned to Bolivia as soon as our two weeks in lima were done

Jennifer: Its fun to think how your group is spread across the globe, given second chances
Ben :yes what about with ya'll?. i think many are unhappy with their second assignment (the process of not fully integrating into the post), the ones that went directly to another country. i'm glad to have had some time to visit home, and to do PC again, but do it the right way, with PST and everything

Jennifer
Most transfers went to Ukraine, Albania, and Romania (and love their new assignments) ((Georgia is a tough assignment) and now others have reenrolled all over the place
Ben: wow. i love Romania. my friend is from Cluj

Jennifer: My best friend of all time is from bucharest
Ben: have you been?

Jennifer: Ive not.
Ben: i met a girl there on a train.
she knew my friend
and she went to my same school
but she started speaking, and out came
a REALLLL southern drawl
heavy as molasses
and it's because she learned English at the U Miss

Jennifer: crazy
Ben: so she learned THEIR english

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So I dont feel so alone now about going. And it's great to have someone with a bad, shared experience. But more than anything, this shows more of the connections to be made with people from all PC posts. She knows people that are now all over, and people from my group are now all over everywhere. That was true somewhat already when in Bolivia, but by now going to a second post in a very different place, it's a different order of experience higher of mixing and the web of interaction. It's less

(Peace Corps Bolivia) + (Peace Corps Morocco) = 2(Peace Corps)

and more

(Peace Corps Bolivia) x (Peace Corps Morocco) = (Peace Corps)²