Moving Forward

I suppose a lot has happened since I last posted. I have thought about posting, but my day to day life in Sydney hasn't posed me with as many moments to ponder or reflect upon as I did in Sri Lanka. About a month ago I was struggling to decide where I would be after my time in Sydney ended, would I be going to Melbourne? Where am I going to work? Could I find a good part time job? After a few disheartening moments of not getting different jobs I applied for, in the first week of December, Peace Corps asked me to fill out some more supplemental forms to remain under consideration. After sending in my supplementary forms, what felt like the next day- I was invited to serve in Indonesia. Obviously, without hesitation I accepted, but I only officially accepted after reading everything and still my mind was made up. I had waited four years, envisioning and waiting for this moment to arrive, when I might be accepted to serve in the Peace Corps.

I think for my parents, their proudest moment was seeing their first child and the first in their families to graduate from university. Peace Corps is currently my proudest moment and I hope to learn so much more throughout my service. I'm beginning to learn that the dreams I envision do have the ability to happen, they may not happen to plan but somehow or another they do happen. Every difficult time is worth seeing through because at the end of that dark tunnel is always a light but you'll never see the light if you don't persist through the darkness.