I opened my email in a fit of chasing dopamine, expecting to find another empty inbox. Instead, a message Zach Yeager popped up, with a profile picture of a young, beaming advisor. I opened the message curiously.
“Eliana,
I wanted to reach out to you because of your unique double major with English and Journalism, your high grades, your writing with the NT Daily and at the recommendation of some other advisors.”
My smile reflected back at me in my iPad screen. After a brief interview, Zach offered me a remote job turning his interviews with UNT affiliated returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) in articles.
I wrote twenty in total. It was an incredibly rewarding project, both because of the articles themselves and everything I learned. I now know so much about the Peace Corps experience, good, bad, and ugly, and I was able to practice writing high quality, high quantity under a deadline. It was the best writing experience I could have asked for because it combined my love for creative writing with my journalistic skills to make delightfully informative and entertaining stories.
Please check out this link as the stories are added over the next several months. I wrote all of the rough drafts in about a month and a half, but they are uploaded to the website after the RPCVs review them and allow me to make any revisions.
https://class.unt.edu/peace-corps-prep/peacecorpsstories/index.html
