It's Official, We Accepted Our Invitation to Serve in Peace Corps..........

 

Mexico!

We received our invitation to serve as part of the Peace Corps Mexico group in a program focused on technology transfer in Mexico.  We will be leaving for Mexico February 6th or 7th, 2012 for training in Querétaro, a town in a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million people, with around 700,000 people living in the city limits proper.  

Here is a photo of the city from Wikipedia and a link below to more information about the city itself.

Link to Wikipedia-Querétaro: 

Needless to say we are pretty excited about our placement.  The program work seems interesting and although, since we are fluent in French, we had not expected a placement in a Spanish speaking country, we are excited to start learning the language.  We will post more details as we know them, but for now we just wanted to share the news! 

A Little Bit of News-More Waiting

Antoine got an email from a placement officer from the business desk yesterday who told him that all business assignments in programs departing September 2011 to March 2012 time frame have been filled.  So that means that it is likely that we won't be departing until sometime between April-June 2012 and possibly even as late as September 2012.  I haven't heard anything yet from my placement officer, but given the news from Antoine, I assume it will be the same news.  We are okay with the time frame and basically we will try to figure what kind of things we can do during the waiting period to enhance our placement profile.

Meanwhile, we are patiently waiting.