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Well, technically on Sunday he leaves for his 27-month “stay” in Mozambique to do Health Education as a member of the Peace Corps, but do a few days matter when we’re talking about two years? (I just had an excellent typo and wrote Peach Corps instead. This is probably funniest if you know Kevin.) 

Kevin is amazing and I urge you to stop by his new blog, where he explains his experience working his third summer for Seeds of Peace at their camp in Maine. From everything he’s told me, this organization is truly monumental — bringing kids from conflict regions in the Middle East together to live and talk and play and debate and learn and make music and just exist together. It’s such a simple idea, but I cannot even imagine how difficult it is to pull together and how life-changing it is for everyone involved. They have an office in the city and I’m looking forward to pitching in sometime soon.

Did you know they speak Portuguese in Mozambique? I didn’t…but these are the kinds of things that Kevin knows, and shares in his kind and inspirational way. Yeaah…it’s a little cheesy, but I have a soft spot. After all, Kevin and I also had a fantastic love affair in sixth grade at Glenarden Woods Elementary School, which consisted solely of note-passing using friends and culminated in the big moment on the bus on the end-of-year trip to Amish Country when we listened to Ace of Base on the same headset and he put his arm around me. What a shame we had to grow up.

Kevin, I’m thinking of you!

September 19th, 2006
Categories: The Day When..., Flashback, ERHS . Author: Katie

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