Abstract
The life of a Peace Corps Volunteer is not some thing that can be adequately described to him before the fact. It is a life filled with excitement, boredom, achievement and frustration. It is a life in which the Volunteer's expectations of his host country, his living conditions, his social life, his own government, and even the American press are not only un realized but often completely contradicted. Most important, it is a life in which the Volunteer's expectations of himself are clearly challenged, and as a result the Volunteer returns home greatly tempered and molded by an experience that is virtually unobtainable in his own country.
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