by Idorico Sebastiao

Virtual Service gave me the opportunity to return to the Peace Corps community – what I consider my family.

Standing alone on that balcony in Tirana in March gave me a sense of separation I thought I wouldn’t have to confront for another two years. But here it was: the eve of our evacuation back to the United States. We were already going home.

As Peace Corps commemorated its 60th anniversary, a virtual panel discussion was held on March 3 with returned Volunteers who were personally impacted by President John F. Kennedy, who established the agency in 1961.

As I sit and write this, I look back on my experiences and the people who I had the honor to meet, and I am deeply grateful to them.

World Wise Schools has been an invigorating part of my classroom for the past 20 years.

May is nationally recognized as Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Month.

I became interested in the Peace Corps while studying abroad in Kenya and Rwanda in 2014 as a student at Western Washington University (WWU).

In my site, a small town in central Albania, most middle-aged women do not work outside their households

“I’m finally joining the Peace Corps," I told my best friend at our favorite brunch place one Saturday in New York City. 

At the end of last month, I returned to New York City from Albania for a close friend's wedding. 

While Albania celebrates many of the same holidays as the rest of the world, one American celebration is still unknown.