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W)rkm share chance for leairung, caring By Todd Anderson StaffReporter Trading in her job, family, and friends for two years on an isolated Micronesian island sounded like the chance of a lifetime to Terry! Norgaard. After realizing advancement in her current profession was not possible, Norgaard turned to the Peace Corps for a change. “I didn’t have any idea what to ex pect,” she said. After a rigorous application process and background check by the U.S. gov ernment, she was placed on a small is land in Micronesia where the natives speak Woliean, a mixture of Spanish and Japanese. The islands are south west of Hawaii in the north Pacific Ocean. She said even thougl^she received training in the language, it still took her some time to learn it. But soon, she said, she found herself speaking in the language without realizing it. “You start thinking in that language and in those terms. You start to see life the way they do, not the way Ameri cans see it,” she said. “You share their life. You share everything with them. You can’t help but go through life they way they do.” Norgaard said she could not be afraid to be by herself. “The best thing that happens is that you get to know yourself really well,” she said. “That’s an advantage.” Norgaard, who received her bach elor of arts degree in anthropology from the University of Nebraska-Lin coln, taught English as a second lan guage, community planning, and sani tation to the Micronesian isiands’ na tives. She said she was warmly received by the island’s people, who had housed Peace Corps volunteers before. ’ ■ 1 it It’s a 24-hour job. That slogan the Peace Corps has, that ‘It’s the toughest job you’ll ever love,’ is the truth.” Terryl Nogaard Peace Corps volunteer “They love Peace Corps volunteers. They know they’re getting a lot of help,” she said. But life in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is not easy, she said. “It’s a 24-hour job,” she said. “That slogan the Peace Corps has, that ‘It’s the toughest job you’ll ever love,’ is the truth.” Norgaard is one of more than 1,000 Nebraskans who have volunteered for the Peace Corps. State Sen. Chris Beutler volun teered for the Peace Corps in the 1960s inT\irkey. He said he wanted a chance to travel on a limited budget and to learn about another culture. “I think I was one of the lucky few who had all my expectations fulfilled,” he said. After graduating from UNL and teaching English as a second language in Turkey, Beutler discovered a teach ing career would require more patience than he could offer. So when he returned to the United States, he said, he went to law school. Beutler said the Peace Corps has changed in the 35 years since Presi dent John F. Kennedy started the pro gram. “The volunteers are older now than before. They have a greater variety of programs for older people.” - Hie average age of volunteers is 29, and 97 percent of volunteers have com pleted their college degrees. Beutler said he thought it was im portant that the volunteers have the training and expertise required to en ter the Peace Corps. “Idealism just won’t substitute for expertise in certain situations,” he said. Currently, 31 UNL alumni are working abroad in education, business, agriculture and English. Michelle Kraviec, a 1996 graduate who works in Vladivostok, Russia, is one of them. Hie Peace Corps has volunteers placed in 94 countries and will add South Africa, Haiti and Jordan to its list of host countries in the coming year. UNL students who are interested in joining the Peace Corps should look for the Peace Corps representatives on campus next week. Representatives will be on campus Monday and Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 3 pjn. in the Nebraska Union to recruit new volunteers, said Jeff Martin, who works with the regional Peace Corps office in Denver. Both Norgaard and Beutler said they would never forget the experi ences they had. And both said they would volunteer again if they had the chance. “If you’re willing to go on an ex-. tended camping trip,” Norgaard said. “It’s worth it.” An 85-year-old woman died of natural causes Wednesday while flying home to Lincoln from Wash ington state. Ardis Moran was found by flight attendants between 8:15 and 8:44 p.m. — before the United flight landed at Lincoln Municipal Air port, according to police reports. County Attorney Gary Lacey said Moran had been suffering from pneumonia during the past month while visiting relatives in Washing ton. The exact cause of death has not yet been determined, but she prob ably died of problems with her heart or lungs, Lacey said. Moran had spent three weeks in a health care center, but doctors said she was healthy enough to leave, Lacey said. On her flight home, she com plained she was having problems breathing, Lacey said. Medical personnel pronounced her dead at the scene, Lacey said. A Lincoln woman woke up to find a burglar standing at the foot of her bed Thursday morning. The woman told police she woke and noticed her bedroom light was on, Lincoln police Sgt. Ann Heermann said. She ignored it and fell asleep again. The next time she woke, she saw a man near her bed staring at her, Heermann said. The burglar took the woman’s planner and purse and fled. The woman described the bur glar as about 6 feet tall, wearing a baseball cap and a green shirt. Police cited a 21-year-old First Bank teller for stealing from the company Wednesday. Bank officials reported that Holly Allen took a easier’s check from the bank at 27th and Ticonderoga and wrote it out to Westfall Motors for $2,995, Heermann said First Bank accountants found the loss when reconciling their ac count records, Heermann said. Police are asking for help in try ing to locate a Bradshaw man who has been missing since the end of the Nebraska State Fair. Ronnie Judd, a 36-year-old, came to Lincoln for the State Fair on August 30, investigator Val Kinghom said. Judd’s girlfriend dropped him off and returned to pick him up Sept. 2 but couldn’t find him, Kinghom said. Judd was seen once at the fair and once on Sept. 3, Kinghom said. Judd is described as 5 feet, 9 inches tall, weighing 170 pounds, with red shoulder-length hair, a moustache and beard and green eyes. He was last wearing a green long-sleeved shirt, blue jeans and black boots. He wears wire-framed glasses and has several tattoos. 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