Peace Corps Stories: The Unofficial Podcast

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Peace Corps Stories: The Unofficial Podcast Podcast

An unfiltered look at the toughest job you'll ever love. Each episode features true stories about the Peace Corps, told by returned volunteers reflecting on the thrilling highs, the debilitating lows, the near-death experiences and the crazy adventures that you may not hear about from the Peace Corps organization itself. The Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of New York City is a non-profit group based in NYC to bring people who have served in the Peace Corps, with their friends and family, together for charity and social events, as well as our annual Peace Corps Story Slam storytelling event. Find us on Facebook.

  1. 22/10/2020

    Episode 22 - Michelle Obama and the Soviet YMCA

    There are many ways to learn about the local culture as a Peace Corps volunteer, but often the best lessons happen by accident rather than by design. In this episode we hear two stories out of the Ukraine, from Victoria Walker and Allison Miller, who made strong impressions on the locals, but maybe not for the reasons they would have chosen.

    15 min

  2. 24/09/2020

    Episode 21 - Circus of Love

    Shawna Miller finds much more than love when the circus comes to her little Honduran town.

    14 min

  3. 14/08/2020

    Episode 20 - The Mutt And The Machete

    Pets and animals tend to play outsize roles for Peace Corps Volunteers. As companions who, like us, don’t speak the local language, they can make the experience a lot easier. For Helen Alesbury, her dog was at the center of one of her most memorable moments in her time in El Salvador.

    16 min

  4. 28/07/2020

    Episode 19 - The Chinese Sushi Icebreaker

    At some point, every volunteer finds themselves too far from a bathroom at the time they need it most. For Denver Governor, that moment turned out to be one of the most important.

    11 min

  5. 16/07/2020

    Episode 18 - A Shakespearean Crime in Zimbabwe

    Bob Nolan considers what “justice” means when confronting one of his students and friends in Zimbabwe.

    13 min

  6. 04/07/2020

    Episode 17 - Guyanese Fish Flop

    All it took was a fish and a flip flop for Gabriella Miyares to find common ground with her host mother in Guyana.

    9 min

  7. 27/06/2020

    Episode 16 - The Watermelon Coup

    Kevin Kwok remembers his gardening efforts in Mali, cut short by a military coup in 2012 that sent him home early.

    7 min
  8. Episode 15 - Peter's $#!{{? Day

    19/12/2016

    Episode 15 - Peter's $#!{{? Day

    Peter Clark (Kyrgyzstan, 2009-2010) recalls a challenging day on the playground early in his service, and we take a look back at the scatological memories that defined his service as emcee of the Peace Corps Story Slam in the final episode of Season 1.

    8 min
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An unfiltered look at the toughest job you'll ever love. Each episode features true stories about the Peace Corps, told by returned volunteers reflecting on the thrilling highs, the debilitating lows, the near-death experiences and the crazy adventures that you may not hear about from the Peace Corps organization itself. The Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of New York City is a non-profit group based in NYC to bring people who have served in the Peace Corps, with their friends and family, together for charity and social events, as well as our annual Peace Corps Story Slam storytelling event. Find us on Facebook.

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