Tom Reade|Peace Corps

We lost 2 more awesome volunteers this past week… It is one of the differences between this world and the world of politics. They are similar in that you work together with someone for a short period of time but in such intense situations that you form an almost never-ending story with them. Except no luck dragon … But in the political world, you usually don’t lose people mid campaign. In Peace Corps, volunteers going home is a regular occurrence. There are a myriad of reasons for every single one but the end result is the same- they are going home and your mission continues. You might seem them again one day in the United States or somewhere abroad but the odds are against it but at least we have facebook! Though just like everything, there is a cycle that is apart of Moldova. In the summer, we are going to lose the vast, vast majority of the volunteers that trained us and came before us and we are going to get a whopping 75 new volunteers. Moldova is now a larger priority for the United States and thus- more Peace Corps.  This way of living really makes you keep in your mind’s eye the idea of cherishing each and every moment as it may be your last…