So we lost our two closest Peace Corps neighbors this week. Ironically, they were both Malawi volunteers, but it makes sense since we live right on the border, and our own volunteers are so spread out across the vastness of Mozambique. Jordan arrived in country the same week as us, but due to some surprise shifts in the Malawi academic calendar he is already done with his second year of teaching, so he’ll be touring India and Southeast Asia for the next three months while we still have a whole trimester left to complete during that time. Yeah, we are a little jealous. Jordan says he will miss us, but he won’t miss performing to 50+ student classrooms everyday. Oliver, our other PC neighbor, still has over a year left, but headquarters feels his village site is too isolated now without Jordan in his hub town, so he’s being moved farther south. We had a farewell weekend with them to celebrate. We cooked them chocolate chip cookies, lasagna, cinnamon rolls, and had a Glee marathon, watching the last three episodes of the season (we had managed to get them from our download network while down in Maputo). We gave them both matching Mwanza Boyz t-shirts Janet made with her rainbow Sharpies and a couple of Luc’s cleanest undershirts. We also took some farewell pictures. Peace Corps is an intense experience that makes you grow close to your fellow volunteers so it was tough to say goodbye. Last week we had two Peace Corps buddies within walking distance of our home and next week we’ll have none.
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