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US Peace Corps Volunteers Thailand Group 114 10 wk Training



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In this video I try to express the feeling of what it may be like to be in Peace Corps. This video was filmed during the training and home stay before actually becoming volunteers. You get an intensive training for 3-4 months. Learning customs, culture and language. You have a home stay experience for over 6 weeks. Somtimes these people become very good friends in the future. Then you get assigned and move to a new location after training. You do your job whatever field it is in. Many of us were English Teachers and local community Trainers. Also many are involved in community work. You also become good friends with many of the volunteer you meet in your group. We had a special bond with each of the volunteers we lived near. You may see them often as they may live near you or you may never see them again after training if you are far apart. You complete your service in two years and then return home to share your experience. Its hard but interesting and amazing, things you never would get to do see and eat! Skills you pickup and trades you learn.Helping others the whole time. Plus it's awesome to learn new cultures and languages. Full immersion makes it easy too! I have been a Peace Corps volunteer twice. It is amazing! you make no money but have an amazing experience. Its something you can't expect and its hard but fun and feels good to help other people. The work with community groups is some of the most rewarding. Tree planting, reforestation and recycling. Aids work communtiy libraries or therater groups many diffent options are available for secondary projects. After two years you have a final workshop "close of service" meeting to help ease you back into America. Help you with job placement or provide school opportunities as well.


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who bring AIDS in ... ( 1 year ago by mcbong10)
who bring AIDS in Thailand?pity,sex tourism in Asia
Wow, great video! ... ( 1 year ago by jejuneraccoon)
Wow, great video! Thank you for posting. I am applying for the Peace Corps and Thailand is among my preferred choices to get assigned to.
don't do it. find ... ( 1 year ago by offwithitshead)
don't do it. find another organization.
Why? ( 1 year ago by jejuneraccoon)
Why?
I kinda confusded, ... ( 1 year ago by hambletondude1)
I kinda confusded, what do you acctually do to help. I saw you teaching some kids and thats about it. I have been wanting to join peace corps for ages, i was going to go once I finish university but this has just put me off.
I have been to thailand befor and it has a lot of problems but i never for a second thought i know what needs to be done....sing some stupid songs and do stupid dances with them.
That's great what ... ( 1 year ago by ilovenoy)
That's great what you did because it is not free for these kids to go to school and its hard for the poor to provide for school and most of the kids have to work rather than go to school because they can't afford it.
I don't think you ... ( 1 year ago by Rinzai25)
I don't think you should waste your time and apply to the Peace Corps as they probably wouldn't accept you, hambletondude1. If you can type properly or speak English you wouldn't be very valuable as a volunteer, sorry.
They have allready ... ( 1 year ago by hambletondude1)
They have allready accepted and I have allready rejected!
Good for you, ... ( 1 year ago by Rinzai25)
Good for you, hambletondud1. Please don't serve in the Peace Corps as you would no doubt bring down its good reputation.
It takes months and ... ( 1 year ago by Rinzai25)
It takes months and months (sometimes a year) to apply for the Peace Corps...to think you would take all the time and effort to apply and then say no is quite sad.
I taught at 2 local ... ( 1 year ago by iainw64)
I taught at 2 local elementary school 4 days a week and worked with the community in my village to do environmental project the rest of my time. I attended many meeting and taught at many english trainings.
Many different ... ( 11 months ago by iainw64)
Many different countries are available to chose from. I have served twice. Peace Corps has goods and bads. It is burracratic sometimes but if you flow with the system and try. it can be a succesful time. Not easy, Not always fun. But cool and interesting, and something you will never get anywhere else. you can recreate the feeling of being a P.C. just by going on your own. Your are free as a volunteer to seek out people to help as a secondary project besdie the one you are assigned.
Try it!
Hey I really want ... ( 11 months ago by backslash2k3)
Hey I really want to join the peace corps. Can I be a volunteer with only a High school diploma?
there are some hot ... ( 11 months ago by Got2BeDowne69)
there are some hot & cute guys in thailand!
I served in Peace ... ( 10 months ago by seenofruit)
I served in Peace Corps Thailand Group 97 (English teacher, Udornthani). If you haven't been in the Peace Corps, this vid is misleading because it looks like a big group of Americans all serving in the same place. In reality, all these people were off by themselves in villages or small towns for two years (and probably going a little bit nuts from the experience.) This footage is of the initial and follow-up trainings when they were all in the same place and damn glad to see each other.
I served in the ... ( 9 months ago by tioBin7)
I served in the Peace Corps in Thailand Group 18! Yes, late 60's and taught English in a small rural high school. Was able to listen to AFVN(Armed Forces Vietnam Network)live shortwave radio broadcasts of the Tet Offensive in Saigon which was closer to my southern Thai town than was Bangkok as the crow flies. Thais are wonderful people, I can still speak the language, and loved the experience there in spite of the oppressive PC bureaucracy which existed at that time.
HEY! I am 18 Years ... ( 5 months ago by alexgreiner0008)
HEY! I am 18 Years old, graduating highschool and I want to go directly into the peace corps... is that even possible? Someone please tell me!
no, you have to be ... ( 5 months ago by azintp)
no, you have to be a college grad.
why does thailand ... ( 5 months ago by azintp)
why does thailand need peace corps? When I went there, it looked very developed to me. What do you do...spend all your time on PatPong road?
Unless you have a ... ( 4 months ago by clov56)
Unless you have a valuable skill/trade which you know very well, it is recommended that you get a college degree. 95% of recruits are college grads.
azintp--most ... ( 4 months ago by carpeaqua)
azintp--most volunteers are education or business. And the very vast majority live on their own in very rural areas, not in the cities. They work with the community in the line of work they are assigned to and help the community build sustainable ways of keeping the things they do up. Someone may work in the very rural north in a small village of 500 people as an english or math teacher. Someone else may work in another small town with a couple thousand people in it, and work w/ small businesses
Thank you for ... ( 3 months ago by arkamina)
Thank you for posting. I'm very seriously considering applying for the Peace Corps, and this was a nice inside peek.
Wanna taste some ... ( 1 month ago by ncguy21f252)
Wanna taste some hott flesh?
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No, it's government ... ( 2 weeks ago by JMMFilm)
No, it's government oriented.



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