1973: Rebecca Bell-Metereau served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Chad in Bongor, NDjamena beginning in 1973



Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Rebecca Bell-Metereau can be contacted at mbekyayahoodcom

Country of Service: Chad

Training Group: Cameroun 1973

Cities you served in: Bongor, NDjamena

Arrival Year: 1973

Departure Year: 1975

Work Description:

Teaching English as a Second Language, volunteer for US Information Service language classes, Sahel grain flight translator

Other Countries you served in, Training Group Name Arrival Year, Departure Year, Work Description:

no other

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:

Got Ph.D. at Indiana University, and i'm now teaching film and literature at Texas State University, in San Marcos, Texas

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:

It changed my life in countless ways. Chadians are the most generous people on the planet.

Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?:

Bob Neal, Chris Focht, Mike Herberg, John Raleigh, Bo Quinn, Dick Wall, Mamadou Hamadou (alias Kalaki), Jean Mbebe, Antoine Mbaye, Carl Matioli

Any message for returned volunteers?:

Try to stay in touch with fellow volunteers better than I did.

Originally posted: April 4, 2008

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