What does the Corps look for in an applicant?
Assuming you have a skill that Costa Rica or Malawi has asked for, (see above) they look to see if you can survive in a world with no take-out pizza or cable TV; in some cases, no electricity or running water. (Or maybe running bath and drinking water but an outhouse.) Closely related to that but not quite the same, they look to see if you will be comfortable in a culture that isn’t like your own. Different food, different attitudes towards women, children and animals, different body alterations, etc. (If you have piercings, you are strongly urged to get rid of them. My generation had to shave and get a haircut.) There will be more of them than there are of you. Your job is to teach / nurse / advise, not change their culture. You will have to accept the fact that they, for instance, see nothing wrong in staging a cockfight. If you have a piercing, you will have to conform to the fact that they think anyone who has an eyebrow stud is a stupid, lazy, degenerate, drug-addicted freak who s
