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Peace Corps general questions part I? |
I believe myself to be reasonably educated and intelligent and will have taken two years of French by the end of this school year. Though I have no experience teaching English, I suspect that my education and general abilities would be best suited to that sort of role as I intend to teach after grad school. 1.) What sort of response did you put for the essay question of: Why do you want to join the Peace Corps? Personally, I'm not some Miss America "World Peace" type. I'm not out to save the world, and I'm practical enough to know that sometimes the most positive impact one can make on a community isn't always a photo op. It may be typing in a dim office, or wading through bureaucracy issues. I learned from my parents that something as simple as pouring a concrete floor to keep chiggers away-as they did in their budding rural school- helps. So should I be honest or, to be blunt, "smarm it up" a bit? 2.) Will going to a state school harm my chances of getting in to the PC? Me again - I answered Part II first. As to 1, be honest. They don't want someone who thinks he/she can save the world. They want someone who knows he/she can help part of it - 30 kids in a rural school, a village without a nurse, two villages that need a bridge over a river. As to 2, no. I have forgotten if it is UC Berkeley or the U of Michigan, but more volunteers have come from it than any other single institution. The other one is second. You didn't ask, but - take a TESL course, if you have time. http://www.tedpack.org/pchead.html... BE HONEST The Peace Corps get a lot of applicants, many of of whom have no skills whatsoever, like yourself. They are in need of people with trade skills such as carpentry, plumbing, beekeeping is a big one for some strange reason. You might have better luck applying for Ameri-Corps which places people in teaching positions in inner city schools and on Indian reservations in the U.S. I really don't get the impression that you really want to live in the developing world. If I were you, I would re-examine your reasoning for wanting to do this kind of work in the first place. |
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