“Like many Peace Corps volunteers all over the world, I found that the parent visit was a kind of revelation: suddenly I saw how much I had learned and how much I had forgotten.” Peace Corps Book:River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze Source: River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
“Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably the only government entity that taught Americans to abandon key national characteristics. Pride, ambition, impatience, the instinct to control, the desire to accumulate, the missionary impulse - all of it slipped away.” SometimesGovernmentDesireLostTaughtPrideKeysAmbitionOrganizationInstinctImpulseCharacteristicsAbandonMissionaryEntityReverseRefugeeImpatiencePeace CorpsMidwesterners Author:Peter Hessler
