The Final Bell
Salut, Just like that, school is over. All the lessons and schedules and freakouts, chaotic messes, garden clean-ups, snow days, all is over. It feels strange and maybe not fully sunk in. 4 volunteers in our cohort are extending their service, and 19 are from K-30, last year's new cohort. I suppose I should just say it now, but Peace Corps Kyrgyzstan has canceled this year's cohort. No new volunteers will be arriving. As I implied in my last blog post, Peace Corps has been trying to cut and trim due to budget cuts from the top, and I heard from various staff members about the ways they were going to accommodate K31. Clearly, with difficulty. Proposals to move our weekly Hub Days during training to the main Peace Corps office, and proposals to eliminate the Ashu House orientation, among other things. I discussed in the first few blog posts how these affected my service. It's like I said , my cohort seems to have been lucky to have the most normal and fluid service ...