There is something that is becoming increasingly clear to me. Bulgaria is small. Bulgaria is Duluth, MN small.
This has become apparent in the way that most people I encounter in Bulgaria knows, has known or known of a Peace Corps volunteer. This is really great, and I think says a lot about the work Peace Corps is doing in Bulgaria.
So, that brings me to yesterday (Saturday, October 17); a fellow volunteer and I met in Plovdiv to do a little exploring and eat some McDonalds! We were in the old town at a gift stand when the man working the stand heard us speaking English and could tell that we were American. He asked us “Mormons or Peace Corps?”
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Haha that's awesome! I hope yall said mormans!
ReplyDeleteI read somewhere a that there are three groups of Americans that are the ambassadors to the developing world:
ReplyDelete1) Foreign Service Officers
2) Peace Corps Volunteers
3) Mormon Missionaries
I am a Mormon, and when I was in the Peace Corps in Romania (returned this past june) I would often get similar questions. It was always hard to explain. "Well both, actually...but not exactly as you might think..."