Blog Post 4 - GH

This photo was taken on our Peace Corp Site Visit in Kapiri last week. Our Peace Corp Volunteer, Nate, suggested we walk out to a field to see the sunset. Although the sunset is very fleeting and only lasts a few minutes, our group went back to the field every day to watch the sunset and then returned to our site to watch the stars appear in the horizon. The first day we arrived at the site, we were watching the sunset when we got a call from Manav who went on the first Peace Corp trip and wanted to check in on us. This photo, which includes Manav on the phone, captures the strong relationships this cohort have formed as a family and our connection with each other even as half the group was in Lusaka and half was in Kapiri. The richness of my experience in Zambia has included the simple act of taking a few minutes to see the sunset every day, star gazing every night in Kapiri, and becoming part of a family within my cohort. One of the starkest changes in coming to Zambia was the lack of technological connection to our homes and our lives in the US. As a result, our pace of life in Zambia slowed down immensely, sometimes in isolating and uncomfortable ways. This photo captures the ways that we have grown within this area of discomfort—actively embracing how the pace of our lives here is different by taking time to watch the sky every night, as well as connecting within our cohort to check in with each other and alleviate the inevitable isolation from our families and support systems back home.