Wow.
Like everything in my life, it was at the last second: a series of events meant I got to Kyiv with only 90 minutes before the Peace Corps office closed, and I needed to get a medical checkout, close my grant (which normally takes a couple hours) and get a half a dozen signatures from people who turned out not to be in their offices.
With quite a bit of help and goodwill, at very annoyed financial manager, and a new record for running up and down flights of stairs, it's done. I'm done.
I am no longer a Peace Corps Volunteer.
I thought it would be more sad, but the elation of getting the paperwork in under the buzzer put me on an adrenaline high.
Wow.
Done. After everything.
I fly home in five days.
Like everything in my life, it was at the last second: a series of events meant I got to Kyiv with only 90 minutes before the Peace Corps office closed, and I needed to get a medical checkout, close my grant (which normally takes a couple hours) and get a half a dozen signatures from people who turned out not to be in their offices.
With quite a bit of help and goodwill, at very annoyed financial manager, and a new record for running up and down flights of stairs, it's done. I'm done.
I am no longer a Peace Corps Volunteer.
I thought it would be more sad, but the elation of getting the paperwork in under the buzzer put me on an adrenaline high.
Wow.
Done. After everything.
I fly home in five days.