February 9, 1987
Brian BarberDaily Nebraskan
People ask who, what, where, why, when and how much
Why am I going into the Peace
Corps?
In a ranking of questions people
friends most frequently ask me when
they find out I'm going into the Peace
Corps, this question ranks about
fifth. Before I get into this meaty
question, let me first answer the four
most frequently asked questions.
First, where is Mauritania?
Mew A
Magnuson
Mauritania, the country to which
I've been assigned, is located on the
west coast of Africa in the Sahara
Desert. It has a population of just
over one million, which is 95 percent
Islamic. Of high school aged children,
only 2 percent attend school. The two
main languages are Arabic and
French with an only 17 percent liter
acy rate.
When you think of Berbers going
from oasis to oasis on their camel
caravans, that's one aspect of
Mauritania.
Second, how much does it pay?
I find it highly amusing that this is
such a common question. The Peace
Corps pays enough to live on while in
the country, enough to save for vaca
tions and a readjustment fund for
when I get out. The next time one of
these materialists asks, I'm going to
say "Oh about $35,000 per year for
starters," just so I can hear them say,
"Oh really? Maybe I oughta join up."
Third, what are you going to do
there?
I'm going to teach English as a for
eign language.
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Fourth, when do you leave and for
how long?
I'll leave in mid-June for two years.
And finally, just why are you going
into the Peace Corps?
Well, there are all sorts of practical
reasons why I'm going, the kind of
reasons the people who ask me how
Where is Maurita
nia? much I'm going to pull in being a
Peace Corps volunteer may ask.
So here they are:
I'm going to learn Arabic, a mar
ketable skill. It's going to be some
weird dialect, but at least I'll be able
to decipher those odd letters. I'll
learn to speak French, something I
neglected to do after living in France
for a year. And best of all, I'll learn to
teach English as a foreign language, a
skill that is highly in demand in vir
tually every country in the world
except Australia and Great Britain.
After the Peace Corps, I'll be able to
write my ticket to any non-English
speaking country in the world that
interests me. Every one of them
would love to have a native English
speaker teach the world's most
demanded language.
I hope that satisfies all the mate
rialists and career minded folks out
there. But actually, these reasons for
giving up the joys of Western civiliza
tion aren't exactly high on my list.
I've always been a foreign culture
lover. Unlike many of the xenophobic
types who live in Nebraska, I've
always been fascinated by cultures
and people different from myself. I
guess that makes me a xenophile.
I've always been the type to sit down .
in front of the TV during a National
.Geographic special and absorb every
people is very important."
Ann Kopera, coordinator of advis
ing for the College of Arts and
Sciences, said "It's not a limiting
d?::vc." Graduates have a 43 to Zd
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p- " Lilly if three to five coretr
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production artist in the Lincoln
Journal-Star's advertising depart
ment end currently is a self employed
graphic arts designer.
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word. The chance to live in another
culture for two years is a great oppor
tunity. To heck with how much I'm
going to make. If I had the money, I
would pay them to let me live there
for two years.
But the foremost reason for me
going into the Peace Corps is harder
to put in words, and maybe I don't
completely understand it myself. It's
like the cliched response after some
one asks a mountain climber why he
climbs a mountain, "Because it's
there."
It's the challenge I suppose. Some
thing to overcome, something to chal
lenge me. An adventure in a time
when adventures are hard to find.
It's the challenge
I suppose. Some
thing to overcome,
something to chal
lenge me. An
adventure in a
time when adven
tures are hard to
find.
That's it folks. No, there aren't any
stark raving idealistic reasons for
going like trying to save the world or
starving children. Teaching English
doesn't lend itself to these idealistic
motivations anyway. Although, after I
teach a kid to read English, he can
pick up a book on agriculture written
at UNL and understand better farm
ing techniques.
That satisfies the pragmatist, the
idealist and the adventurer in me.
a large number of graduates go on to
graduate school.
"We reeorr.ra.end that students go
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"I think everyone should have a
liberal arts education," Kiecke said.
"It really helps you grt a real pers
pective en the world and what's
l!,.iv;1, en."
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