Here are answers to questions I get asked a lot 
1. How long is the Peace Corps? The program is 27 months. Before you go to your country of service you do staging for a few days at a city in the US (mine will be in Philadelphia), with others who will be serving in the same country as you. This is a time to do things like paper work and shots. Then you leave for your country of service and spend 9 weeks (that's for my program, some countries have training for longer periods) doing in-country training. During this time I will live with a local family. After training I will be sworn in as an official Peace Corps Volunteer and then it's off to my site for two years of service!
2. Can family and friends come and visit? Yes... and you should! 
Interested!?!? Check out this site for a "Botswana Travel Guide"
3. Is it safe? Yes, Peace Corps puts volunteer's safety as a high priority. If at some point while you are in a country it is deemed unsafe, you will be removed immediately. Also, you get training on how to be safe within your new community and there are Peace Corps offices within each country.
- Check out this link, which is information from the official Peace Corps site regarding volunteer safety
4. What will you be doing there? My invitation is for Community Capacity Building for HIV/AIDS in the area of home based care and orphan care and also prevention of mother to child transmission. Just how that manifest itself once I am there remains to be seen!
5. Where are you going? Botswana. I do not find out until the end of pre-service training (the first nine weeks) where my site will be.
6. When are you going? My departure date for orientation is April 15, 2007. This is where everyone going to Botswana meets up in the US to do paper work, shots, bla bla bla... stuff like that 
On April 18, 2007 we will leave as a group to go to Botswana. The first nine weeks will spent in pre-service training living with a host family. After that I head to my site!
7. What language will you speak? I do not need to know anything besides English when I go. During training I will learn Setswana. Depending on where I end up for my site at the end of training I could end up learning a different local language. We will just have to wait and see
8. Will you be living with other Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs)? During training I will be in the same city as other trainees who are also in my same program. After training once I move to my site I will likely be the only PCV in my city/town/village. However, as PCVs we are allowed to travel and visit each other... which I something I envision myself doing! During training I will live with a Botswana host family and once at my site I will live in a home of my own.
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