Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Thinking....again...

Watching the Superbowl last night and talking to Pierre gave me some insight into how I will actually be spending my time. I commented on the water resource side of my assignment and he basically said not to worry, that I will be backpacking around the Philippines for 2 years. After mulling over the assigment for a bit, I realized he is probably right; all of the volunteers I talk to mention no more than one major project in that vast expanse of time (where does the rest of it go?). Basically, I feel like PC is going to be a life exchange program where I volunteer my time and effort in order to gain the perspective of the third world.

Current timeline:

Feb 12th - Quit Moe's Bagel
Feb 25th - Going away party
March 3rd or 4th - Leave Boulder with Ian
March 21st - Leave DC for PC staging in Detroit
March 23rd - Leave Detroit for (Bum-Bum-BUM) MANILLA

When I was a kid, I remember reading in a science book that if you drilled a hole straight down from the continental US, you would end up not in China but in the Indian Ocean. The Philippines are nearly adjacent to the Indian Ocean. To quote Jim Carey in The Truman Show, "you can't get any farther away before you start coming back."