March 25, 2023 – Peace Corps Worldwide

“I Returned” by Jac Conaway (St. Lucia)

Mar 25 2023

A Writer Writes I Returned by Jac Conaway (St. Lucia 1961–63) Republished from PeaceCorpsWriters — 4/3/2004 I returned and it was like this. My son’s mother died suddenly. I hadn’t seen her for 22 years. It was strange to think of her dead or even to think of her as 44 years old. We were kids in so many ways. Now we are “old” and our son is “my” age. Hours after I heard of the Peace Corps I joined, in the spring of 1961. I had just returned from East Pakistan (Bangladesh) where I had my world turned upside down and my eyes opened so wide I couldn’t grasp what I was seeing. In six profound months as a foreign exchange student, I was so astonishingly different that I thought I could never return to my small rural southern farm community. I was wrong about that, but . . .

Ambassador to Palau: RPCV Joel Ehrendreich (Niger)

Mar 25 2023

President Biden announces key nominee for US ambassador to Palau In a statement from the White House, Joel Ehrendreich, is a Nominee for Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Palau. Mr. Ehrenreich is an American diplomat who has served as the director of the Office of Japanese Affairs at the State Department since 2022. He is the nominee to serve as the United States ambassador to Palau. On March 21, 2023, his nomination was sent to the Senate. His nomination is pending before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Early in his career, Ehrendreich served in the Peace Corps in Niger from 1985 to 1987. He is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Counselor. He served as director of Regional and Security Policy in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Prior to that, he was a senior operations officer . . .

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