We have this classmate. Since her last name is McDaniel and mine is Montgomery ,we are ofter placed in the same group. In every class someone has to be first and someone has to be last. Kate, our other friend Amanda, and I are first. As of now, all three of us are straight A…
Author: Elle
Chapter 5: Message in a bottle
“Hey. Do you want to go to El Jalisco again for lunch?” Kate asks. We are supposed to be studying gas laws, capillary action, density of air and water, and other science-y stuff when Kate asks me this seeming innocuous question. “You remember what happened last time?’ I responded without it trying to seems like…
Chapter 4: Speak now
ElizaMarie, future RT ElizaMarie, student RT’ Ummm hey, My name is ElizaMarie. All three are variations of an introduction I’ve use at the hospital just this week. I have a hard time speaking up when it’s needed. Idk why I’m like this but it’s been an issue my entire life. There are so many people…
Chapter 2: Begin Again
I was a bit preoccupied. Preoccupied with what I was going to say. Preoccupied with not getting lost. Getting lost. That was the hard one. Left. Turn right at the first hallway. The right at the last door. It’s easy. It was not easy. I have never been great at finding my way. Whether on…
Museums of Broken Relationships
2020 Michelle here: This museum I found in Zagreb, Croatia is perhaps one of the more interesting museums I’ve ever been in [The Sex Museum in Naples is another]. While Zagreb is no uber charming city, this museum had me enthralled. The end of a relationship is always a trying time for everyone involved even…
Medical Separation and Worldwide Evacuation
If we are being honest I was simultaneously bummed and relieved to be medically separated from the Peace Corps. Bummed because I came to do a job and despite all the issues at site, quitting was never an option. Relieved because medical separation gave me an ‘out. Physicians and Physiotherapists in Kigali couldn’t get me…
The next steps
I guess by now you know that I left the Peace Corps; I was medically seperated from the Peace Corps due to an injury I sustained while at a Peace Corps’ training. I returned to Greenville, spent the night with my best friend, and made my way to my little country house where Miss Molly…
Your’re Confused; I’m confused
Wait? Are you still in Rwanda? The Peace Corps? The short answer to that question is no. No, I am not. As of February 3, 2020 I left Rwanda for what I think will be the absolute last time, but I’ve learned to never say never. Earlier this year I was medically separated from the…
Readjusting After Medical Separation
There’s a long version and a short version of what happened. Short story: I was medically separated from the Peace Corps on January 4, 2020 after being evacuated on December 23, 2019. I was shipped out of the country just before the government shutdown started. PC’s theory was, and it seems plausible, that the impending…
Things I don’t miss about the village: Muzungu
This may not be the most politically correct post I’ve written. If you are easily offended, you’ve been warned. Back when I worked in the hospitals, occasionally some misguided soul would yell out ‘hey, respiratory,’ as I walked by. I’d continue to walk on by. And then the misguided soul would continue ‘hey, I’m talking…