I leave in February for Morocco. After listening to President Elect Obama's speech tonight, I have never been more excited and more proud to go and serve my country in a peaceful way, to spread good will and diplomacy around the globe through cross-cultural interaction.
I just listened to Chris Matthews and Doris Kearns Goodwin talk about the Peace Corps and what it meant to their generation when John F. Kennedy founded the organization. They said that young Americans who are inspired by our next president's vision of hope and change should look into volunteering as a way to get involved and do good, and continue to repair America's relationship with the rest of the world, to continue the work we began tonight.
So I'm in the bag for it. Join me. JOIN THE EFFING PEACE CORPS.
www.peacecorps.org - YES WE DID, YES WE CAN!
Just remember, I was doing it before it was cool ;)