Peace Corps Online: September 14, 2003 - Transitions: RPCV John Osmundson calls his three years in Western Samoa “the best vacation I’ll ever work."

September 14, 2003 - Transitions: RPCV John Osmundson calls his three years in Western Samoa “the best vacation I’ll ever work."

Peace Corps Online: Directory: Samoa: Peace Corps Samoa : The Peace Corps in Samoa: September 14, 2003 - Transitions: RPCV John Osmundson calls his three years in Western Samoa “the best vacation I’ll ever work."

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John Osmundson calls his three years in Western Samoa as a Peace Corps Volunteer “the best vacation I’ll ever work"

Read and comment on this excerpt from a story in Transitions about Samoa RPCV John Osmundson written by his mother Linda Osmundson about John's three years in the Peace Corps in Samoa. Follow the link to read the entire story and find out how John became known as one of the best Samoan dancers around and why he called his service in the Peace Corps “the best vacation I’ll ever work" at:

Making a Difference By Linda Osmundson*

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Making a Difference By Linda Osmundson

More about Peace Corps Volunteers working in Samoa

Read more about other Peace Corps Volunteers working in Samoa at:

Samoa: The Shark, the Samoan, and the boy from New York City by © gene carl feldman 28 December 2001

Samoa: Has the Peace Corps overstayed its welcome in Samoa by Peter Harrer 5 July 2001

Samoa: PCV Sarah Kiefer works with Extension agents and rural volunteers to promote and develop agricultural projects for Samoa 19 February 2003

Samoa: Western Samoa RPCV Tricia Siaso recruits for the Peace Corps 19 February 2003

Samoa: RPCV Kay Drikey served in Samoa at 65 26 April 2003

Samoa: Grads look to Peace Corps during poor economy 8 May 2003

Samoa: Samoa RPCV Tony Beonde struggles as part-time professor 26 May 2003

Samoa: Bolivia RPCV Brian Riley selected as executive director of San Isabel Foundation 31 July 2003

Samoa: Peace Corps Samoa - It shocked, amazed, and disappointed me that my family had a television 23 October 2002

Samoa: This is my service of 27 months in the Peace Corps, where I am stationed in Samoa. 13 September 2003

Samoa: Friends and scenery from my time as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Western Samoa: 14 September 2003

Samoa: Peace Corps Programs in Samoa 14 September 2003

Samoa: Last Sunset of the Millennium in Western Samoa 14 September 2003

Samoa: Western Samoa - Peace Corps Group 42 (1986-88/89) 14 September 2003

Samoa: Tom and Carol Hastings taught with the Peace Corps in Western Samoa 14 September 2003

Samoa: Peace Corps Group 48 (Western Samoa) and Group 10 (Cook Islands) at Aleipata, Upolu, Western Samoa, 1992. 14 September 2003

Samoa: My uncle John Dean left the unrest in the U.S. to go into the Peace Corps in 1969, and was assigned to a small island in the South Pacific called Western Samoa. 14 September 2003

Samoa: Alex's Samoa page - RPCV Group 57 14 September 2003

Samoa: Emily M. Larkin's Peace Corps Samoa Photo Album 14 September 2003

Samoa: New Peace Corps learn the Samoan way 2 July 2003

Samoa: Jackie Faasisila went to Samoa as a Peace Corps Volunteer in 1972 14 September 2003

Samoa: HFH Samoa's break through came when Jesus Puerto, a former Peace Corps volunteer, returned to Samoa to take up a one-year assignment as a UN Volunteer in April 2001 14 September 2003

Samoa: A new alliance in the Pacific, between the United States Peace Corps and the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), is now under way 24 September 1999

Samoa: Traveling In The Peace Corps in The Pacific 14 September 2003

Samoa: I just finished up a 2-year service this past April (2003) as a Peace Corps volunteer in Samoa 14 September 2003

Samoa: Peace Corps, South Pacific Regional Environment Programme Sign Agreement to Expand Environmental Programmes in the Pacific 15 July 1999

Samoa: Letter From A Not-So-Much Exile in Samoa 14 September 2003

Samoa: When John’s assignment finally arrived—Western Samoa, a group of four Pacific islands —he packed his allotted 90 pounds of carefully selected necessities 14 September 2003

Samoa: Info without dramatics pls... By Samoa RPCV Amy 27 October 2003

Samoa: Clare Trapasso is a Peace Corps volunteer serving in (independent) Samoa in the South Pacific 13 November 2003

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