September

Note for the folks at home: A regular US Peace Corps Volunteer service is two years long (plus two or three months of training.) A volunteer can additionally apply to "extend" their service for a third year, though not all extensions are granted. Volunteer entrance rates vary greatly country-to-country, but in Kenya, new groups of volunteers enter the country twice per year, replacing two "graduating" groups of volunteers. Currently, Peace Corps Kenya supports volunteers in three categories: Education, Public Health, and Small Enterprise Development. In September, 2010, I supposed I might be building houses for villagers in a remote settlement in the middle of a jungle as a Peace Corps volunteer. By September, 2012, I have built a total of zero houses, and consider my pre-departure ignorance of Kenya humorous and embarrassing.