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Apr. 7th, 2003 02:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bryiarroseevan's coming home.
It's been awhile since I've sent out my newsletter, mainly because Mauritania hasn't been the most stable place on earth recently. The latest and most serious "incident" was a death threat posted on the door of a volunteer's house in Atar saying (in french) that if they (the Atar volunteers) were men they would already be dead, since they're all female they were given 48 hours to live. It was signed "The Holy War".
So we got offered interrupted service, which means that if we want we can end our service early we can with no hard feelings. And today I accepted that offer. I'll be arriving in PDX on the 15th of April.
in some ways i'm terribly relieved. and yet i feel a bit guilty for feeling that way.
it will be good to know he's home and safe and closer to where i am. even if it's still a long ways away and i won't get to see him like i wish i could.
but i know what he's been doing is important. important to him and in the greater scheme of things. yes, i think the peace corps is important. but (selfishly) evan is more important to me.
and so i feel just slightly guilty that i'd rather have him home.
but i trust his judgment, and from the little bits he's emailed, this feels like a progression that doesn't have a definite end.
he's been so passionate about this experience-- even when it's been a struggle.
my heart goes out to him today for making what i know must be a very difficult decision.
It's been awhile since I've sent out my newsletter, mainly because Mauritania hasn't been the most stable place on earth recently. The latest and most serious "incident" was a death threat posted on the door of a volunteer's house in Atar saying (in french) that if they (the Atar volunteers) were men they would already be dead, since they're all female they were given 48 hours to live. It was signed "The Holy War".
So we got offered interrupted service, which means that if we want we can end our service early we can with no hard feelings. And today I accepted that offer. I'll be arriving in PDX on the 15th of April.
in some ways i'm terribly relieved. and yet i feel a bit guilty for feeling that way.
it will be good to know he's home and safe and closer to where i am. even if it's still a long ways away and i won't get to see him like i wish i could.
but i know what he's been doing is important. important to him and in the greater scheme of things. yes, i think the peace corps is important. but (selfishly) evan is more important to me.
and so i feel just slightly guilty that i'd rather have him home.
but i trust his judgment, and from the little bits he's emailed, this feels like a progression that doesn't have a definite end.
he's been so passionate about this experience-- even when it's been a struggle.
my heart goes out to him today for making what i know must be a very difficult decision.
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Date: 2003-04-07 05:25 am (UTC)the line he initially fed me was that since he couldn't get a job and couldn't find a girlfriend, he might as well be in a third world country. which sounds just like evan.
i knew there was more behind it than that, though i didn't realize it completely until i started listening to what he had to say after he left in june.
(for the record, it did provide him a job and he did meet a girl within the first month. so.)
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Date: 2003-04-07 07:33 am (UTC)I would never have pegged Evan for the Peace Corps, but in some ways I'm not surprised. I think he'll be a very different person for this experience; maybe a better one.
God, I didn't even realize how much I missed him until you mentioned his name.
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Date: 2003-04-07 10:57 pm (UTC)