Like Vincent Vega rhapsodized about in the Quentin Tarantino film “Pulp Fiction,” “You know what the funniest thing about Europe is?… It’s the little differences. I mean, they got the same [stuff] over there that we got here, but it’s just… it’s just, there it’s a little different.”

Jerilyn Ray-Shelley thought it was too late for her to serve in the Peace Corps, but after a visit to her daughter, Caitlyn, who was serving as a Volunteer in Thailand, she changed her mind.

If one word could describe Sara Kline, a PCV in Thailand and winner of Peace Corps’ Blog It Home competition, it would be passionate.