wanderlust- an irresistibly strong desire to travel far away and explore different places.: June 2011

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Peace Corps Nomination!

I received my Peace Corps nomination on Friday, June 3rd 2011.

My nomination is to teach secondary school as a math teacher in AFRICA. Language to learn: French. Date of departure: June 2012.

My reaction:

Colour me overwhelmed and excited.

What's this all about?

I'm Lisa.

After graduating college from Georgia College and State University in the spring of 2011, I accepted a job teaching English in China. I left Atlanta, GA on September 4th, 2011 and I returned on July 9th, 2012.

After teaching English in China, I received a Fulbright Scholarship for an English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) through the U.S. Department of State. My additional project while in Mongolia was researching family and cultural values. I traveled to Mongolia on August 7th, 2012 and I returned to America on June 9th, 2013.

I was accepted into the University of South Dakota's PhD program for Clinical Psychology in 2013. After 5 years, I graduated from the University of South Dakota in the summer of 2018, after completing my residency in Dayton, Ohio as a Captain in the USAF. Following that, the Air Force moved me to Texas and I became a licensed Clinical Psychologist.

I'm currently living in Abilene, Texas.

Graduate School Travels:

August 2013- August 2017

1) Roadtrip to Traverse City, Michigan (Summer, 2013).

2) Vermillion, South Dakota (Fall, 2013).

3) Atlanta, Georgia & Las Vegas, Nevada (Winter 2013).

4) Atlanta, Georgia / Coopersville, New York / Pensacola, Florida / St. Louis, Missouri (Summer 2014).

5) South Dakota, Wyoming, & Montana (Spring Break, 2015 with the Harris').

6) Parkston, South Dakota (Summer, 2015).

7) Heredia, Costa Rica (Summer, 2015)

8) Parkston, Deadwood, Lead, Spearfish, Custer, South Dakota & Wyoming (Spring Break, 2016 with my parents).

9) Colorado (Summer, 2016 with my family).

10) Residency/Internship Interviews (Jan-Feb 2017)

Tallahassee, FL

Atlanta, GA

Tuskegee, AL

Rapid City, South Dakota

11) Moved to Dayton, Ohio for my residency.

Mongolia Travels:

August 2012- June 2013

1) ъуянт, Mongolia.

2) Mungunmorit, Mongolia.

3) Stepperiders, countryside, Mongolia.

4) Beijing & Wuxi, China.

5) Seoul and Cheonan, South Korea & North Korea.

6) Arkhangai & Zavkhan provinces, Mongolia.

7) Bangkok & Koh Samet, Thailand.

China Travels:

September 2011- June 2012

1) Manila & El Nido, Philippines.

2) Kaifeng, China.

3) Beijing, China- Great Wall.

4) Tokyo, Japan.

5) Seoul, South Korea.

6) Atlanta & Milledgeville, Georgia, USA.

7) Tokyo, Japan.

8) Xi'An, China.

9) Dengfeng, China

10) Tokyo, Japan.

11) Bloom Hot Springs, Zhengzhou, China.

12) Luoyang, China.

13) Bloom Hot Springs, Zhengzhou, China.

14) Tokyo, Japan.

Hungary Travels:

August-December 2010

1) Lake Balaton, Hungary.

2) Dubrovnik & Split, Croatia.

3) Holloko & Eger, Hungary. (small villages)

4) Transylvania, Romania.

5) Budapest, Hungary with parents.

6) Salzburg, Austria with John Blayne.

7) Prague, Czech Republic.

8) Bratislava, Slovakia.

9) Venice, Italy.

10) Paris, France.

11) Munich, Germany.

12) Vienna, Austria.

13) Dresden, Germany.

14) Berlin, Germany.

Summer 2010:

Haiti- Mission Trip.

This blog is not an official Fulbright Program blog and the views expressed are my own.

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Peace Corps Nomination!

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