Live Like a PCV

Take the Live Like a PCV Challenge! In honor of the 50th Anniversary of Peace Corps, we are giving everyone an opportunity to try and live like a Peace Corps Volunteer.

Go to www.livelikeapcv.org & Check out the Rules

I've checked it out and think it's a pretty cool project. The Rules for how to be a Botswana PCV are supposed to be up end of this week but so far, the rules for being a Mongolian PCV are up.

Example: Depending on how hardcore you want to be about this challenge, you can select 5 different difficulty levels - each level, you have to give up something in your daily life that is on the list. Give up things like:

• using your microwave
  
• using your washing machine and washing your clothes by hand
• cook dinners at night every day
  
• shower once a week
• using your own toilet (use someone else's or go outside or use a bucket)

It's been interesting looking at these lists because I've had to deal with a lot, if not all of them. Eg.

• Not having electricity for 3 days (also means no fridge)
  
• Not having water in my house
  
• Not having access to any water for 5 days
• Showering once a week
• Only having a toilet outside or using a bucket inside

Give it a go. You'll be amazed at how quickly you can adapt and how innovative you can be at getting around not having certain resources! I really didn't realize that I had access to all of these things before when I was living in the states until I saw these lists because I had gotten so used to not having most of them.