Peace

A huge part of my service is promoting world peace and friendship. This part of service isn’t suppressed but it’s not the focus at times, or its importance isn't addressed as much as it should be. Us volunteers have to be on our best behavior at all times - and even if we don't realize it, this is the "promoting peace" bit of our service. This means we hold back anger and frustration at the developing world and things we are not used to at times. This builds up and explodes in different ways throughout our service – the depression, the anxieties, not wanting to come out of your room for 3 days in a row. But at the end, we take the hit because we understand deeply that we are here to promote something bigger than ourselves. We are representing what the United States of America stands for. We are walking, talking symbols of the importance of service and worldwide peace and teamwork. Peace is not just a noun. It is the verb we live by. It is our goal to show at least one person every day that peace is real. This crazy thing called "peace" is possible and we are after it.