discussing the community clean-up project, Camp IKNOW

campers attending a class on leadership and teamwork at Camp IKNOW

counselors and campers helping to serve the midday meal - Camp IKNOW 2012

campers playing a leadership game at Camp IKNOW 2012

my counterpart and her son, discussing the day

camp sing-a-long - we taught them Old Crow Medicine Show’s song Wagon Wheel :)

playing Will you buy my donkey? at Camp IKNOW 2012

gorgeous day in Zalitzi

spider web name game

Peace Corps Ukraine’s Environmental Working Group’s Pan-Ukrainian Water Testing Project

(Also, I got (almost) everyone to smile! …it’s harder than you might think, here in Ukraine.)

Peace Corps service means days and weeks of being so frustrated you could cry (or do), tons of setbacks, seemingly insurmountable miscommunication, and last minute changes to projects you’ve worked on for months….but…

See the thing about Peace Corps is…sometimes… you have these amazing days where you feel so impossibly wonderful that you’re about to burst into a billion bits of light.  Days where you know, to the center of your being, that you are exactly where you are supposed to be, doing exactly what you should. 

I love days like this. 

#PeaceCorps #ILoveMyStudents #EveryoneSmiledAtMe #SunshineMakesItBetter