{"id":321,"date":"2013-11-14T14:47:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T19:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/?p=321"},"modified":"2023-04-07T14:07:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T18:07:14","slug":"the-benefits-of-peace-corps-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/the-benefits-of-peace-corps-service\/","title":{"rendered":"The Benefits of Peace Corps Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tEver wonder what a Peace Corps volunteer actually gains from their experience abroad?\u00a0 What new insights do they leave with?\u00a0 What did volunteers learn about themselves?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_255\" style=\"width: 2127px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/11\/Randal-Participants-2002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-255\" class=\" wp-image-255 \" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/11\/Randal-Participants-2002.jpg\" alt=\"Randal Participants 2002\" width=\"2117\" height=\"1402\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Summer Program Participants, Cristo Rey Village, 2002<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve survived the challenge of Peace Corps and found that I really like working with little kids.\u00a0 I also found that I like to write and edit,\u201d reflected Alanna Randall in an email to family and friends in the United States.\u00a0 As a volunteer in San Ignacio, Belize, Randall worked as an Environmental Education Coordinator.\u00a0 It makes sense that you might not love every aspect of the job you are assigned to do.\u00a0 Yet, the Peace Corps environment provided many young individuals a chance to work in positions they might not originally choose.\u00a0 Randall reflected on her own experience, \u201cI\u2019ve learned quite a bit about our environment, but I still don\u2019t really feel qualified to be an \u2018environmental educator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers like Randall left the Peace Corps with a deeper understanding of areas they were interested in pursuing post-Peace Corps, as well as those they unquestionably felt were not for them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_256\" style=\"width: 2154px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/11\/Randall-Children-2002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-256\" class=\" wp-image-256 \" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/11\/Randall-Children-2002.jpg\" alt=\"Randall Children 2002\" width=\"2144\" height=\"1423\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alanna Randall with Summer Program Participants, 2002<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder what a Peace Corps volunteer actually gains from their experience abroad?\u00a0 What new insights do they leave with?\u00a0 What did volunteers learn about themselves? \u201cI\u2019ve survived the challenge of Peace Corps and found that I really like working with little kids.\u00a0 I also found that I like to write and edit,\u201d reflected Alanna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18,524,36,37,77,93],"tags":[162,185],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2000s","category-belize","category-blog-post","category-education","category-environment","category-photographs","category-youth","tag-cristo-rey-village","tag-environmental-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6778,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/6778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}