Tomorrow I leave for Miami, where I’ll meet two other Peace Corps Response Volunteers and a slew of new trainees heading off to the Eastern Caribbean. I’ve been in touch with the PCRVs and they seem quite nice. We’re to be met by the coordinator there and a few hours later by the rest of the PCRVs. We head off to our respective countries after a few days of orientation.

I’ve packed much (much) less than I did the first time and that has been a load off my mind. I figure, I can get what I need there, just like the locals do, just like I wound up doing towards the second half of my Peace Corps assignment.

We (the PCRVs) were sent an excerpt of a letter from a previous PCRV from Antigua. The cautions were very similar to what I would have said as a RPCV after serving in Samoa: that island does not necessarily equal paradise, that the work is hard, that being accepted is not a foregone conclusion, but with the right attitude and willingness to be flexible success can be achieved. I come as a visitor and a student, not as a judge, or interloper, or worse: a tourist.

And so ends the blog of Davey-Dave after five years. I have moved over to my new site Picairn.com where I can send virtual postcards during this little trip. (I plan on sending some paper-killing kind too, so send me your address via email.) So please follow me there and perhaps share some of your own photos with me.

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