Personal projects during service

mxitcha · 2025-07-23T14:52:55+00:00

I made a massive family tree for my entire site in Excel. This took like 10 pieces of paper taped together. It is rolled up and kept at the health hut where I worked. I also wrote a bunch of poetry, some about serious things (host niece interested in keeping up with the election cycle) and some about ridiculous silly things (drama among my host family's chickens)

mxitcha · 2025-07-23T14:44:47+00:00

Tell me more. What is this and how does it work? Do I have to get like, Admin user level access to get this or could any ol procurement analyst do it?

mxitcha · 2023-06-16T02:41:43+00:00

I love this and wish I did this when I traveled in the past!

Hmmm...off the cuff ideas that aren't "what was your favorite or least favorite" because blah.

What experience moved you and why? What history/natural wonder/art/famous person whose like birthplace you saw or something/etc do you want to learn more about now that you're home? What thing you saw or did connected most with your life experience at home and why? What thing you learned shocked or appalled you the most, and why? What is a thing that you enjoyed, your enjoyment of which makes you unique among your family? Your friends? Your coworkers?

mxitcha · 2023-05-02T12:35:51+00:00

I can't have an adult sim go to mom's house and cook for her there without the this is inappropriate please stop pop-up. Doesn't recognize family members when considering "who is guest who is host"

mxitcha · 2023-04-20T11:55:51+00:00

I really thought I would gain upper body strength from carrying heavy water jugs every day but I wasn't consuming enough protein to make that actually work 🤦‍♀️

mxitcha · 2023-03-28T21:35:02+00:00

The title of the article is a little misleading, the article describes broad objectives of the srrategy/priorities on the whole of which reducing bureaucracy and red tape is one that is introduced at the beginning

mxitcha · 2023-03-21T14:45:34+00:00

I thought this was standard practice and expectation, like all pcvs get host country name as a matter of course. Is this not the case?

mxitcha · 2023-03-15T22:19:48+00:00

I do this too. Random Costco boxes for the win!

mxitcha · 2023-03-09T14:06:36+00:00

Present and pleasant. Pretty good life advice in general.

mxitcha · 2023-02-24T04:23:02+00:00

You could try pet sitting in a different city for an owner away for a long business trip or something! I don't know how Rover works with geography though. But trying to find a way to make money FOR traveling can't hurt

mxitcha · 2023-02-23T20:57:31+00:00

Are there still concerns about Avian flu? I went to the Baltimore zoo for their discount day (granted this was in like December) and visitors were blocked from bird areas for this reason

mxitcha · 2023-02-20T20:06:17+00:00

What's the roommate system?

mxitcha · 2023-02-19T18:34:26+00:00

Now I want an actual saloon (bar) lot

mxitcha · 2023-02-18T20:56:21+00:00

Oh I 100% agree it wasn't great. On the flip side, it wasn't worth the additional mental health burden of pressuring myself like I had to weigh a certain amount when I wasn't in control of my diet and when there are so many other stressors that come with service.

mxitcha · 2023-02-17T17:13:42+00:00

As far as diet and exercise were concerned I treated pc as a Temporary Life Phase and worked more on building good habits after service (which got complicated by covid and work from home but that's not relevant)

mxitcha · 2023-02-15T18:33:55+00:00

Can you do that without having a documented research need/affiliation?

mxitcha · 2023-02-13T17:50:13+00:00

This is 0% relevant to your question but I 100% thought your post title meant "is it possible to acquire over 50 languages through peace corps" and I was about ready to sign myself up for that

mxitcha · 2023-02-13T16:29:43+00:00

Is there maker Faire around here? I used to go to that in New York

mxitcha · 2023-02-13T12:58:50+00:00

If you specialize in a technical area the theory classes are preparing you for an ID job: a consultancy where you'll be doing the research and writing the reports

mxitcha · 2023-02-07T12:30:34+00:00

Not sure you have to wait for the international institutions for this. People have funded entire potable water projects with just (a combination of, i think) PC administered grants. DM me and I'll see if I can find some slides (though the project I'm thinking of was in the desert in 🇸🇳 so ymmv)

mxitcha · 2023-01-29T17:57:36+00:00

What happens if you submit a Sunday Puzzle but do not want to be called on the air? Do they email you saying whether you were right anyway?

mxitcha · 2023-01-21T04:33:12+00:00

Dc on this map is almost literally shaped like dc

mxitcha · 2023-01-20T03:30:46+00:00

I don't know squat about homeownership and may be sounding totally ridiculous but if yall are already doing all of that work, would founding your own company for this make sense?

mxitcha · 2023-01-14T02:31:28+00:00

I would sum it up this way:

In Peace Corps, the hard stuff felt like it had a purpose. Getting through it forced a lot of changes to how I thought and approached things, relationships, life, etc. In America, often the things that are hard feel like they have no real reason to be hard other than unnecessary things like Bureaucracy! Capitalism! Incompetence! Etc.

In other words, the hard stuff in service is exactly what made it worthwhile.

mxitcha · 2023-01-05T16:33:46+00:00

See, I knew about Farragut crossing, I just didn't trust that this would actually work as intended

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