Thursday, October 13, 2005

You know you're leaving Peace Corps Macedonia when...

1. You respond to losing your cell phone with "Eh."
2. You're begging other volunteers to come over and take your forks/ripped jeans/neglected houseplant.
3. You start buying your toilet paper by the roll rather than by the 4-pack.
4. You remind your friends and family to stop sending you snail mail (FedEx still OK, Mom).
5. You have explained air travel baggage limitations to 23 people who want to give you jars of ajvar to take home.
6. You give people "presents" such as a half-empty box of salt or an individual tea bag.
7. Everyday you say, "This is the last time I will ever--" at least once.
8. You no longer know what the date is, only how many days you have left ("What's today?" "Sixteen!").
9. You're plotting how to discreetly dispose of that cubic meter of compost on your balcony.
10. You throw away your underwear rather than wash it.
11. You're desperately trying to get the posters off the walls of your apartment without taking off the paint (solution: hairdryer).
12. You're using a bottle of white-out to cover up the spots where the paint chipped off anyway (stupid hairdryer).
13. You're freaking out. In a good way. I guess.

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