There was a Peace Corps Volunteer who was full of enthusiasm and convinced that he would change the world. Nothing was impossible for him, after all he had always done very well in college and graduated among the highest of the honor students.

Initially in country fed, housed and trained among a like minded group of enthusiastic Peace Corp Vol enters, cheerful, optimistic, a perfect group with common ideals. A joyous condition, life was good. Than briefly seen where they would go, than back. He could get used to this, he thought.

There is a saying about the Peace Corps: The Highs are Very High and the Lows are Very Low. Anyway after the Peace Corps Volunteer is sent to his site he is Alone. Not just alone, Quite by one's self; Isolated; Solitary; Without any thing familiar or any one we know.

Stranger in a Crowd of strangers. Thrown into a culture we do not belong in. It takes a long time to become a simulated into the culture, but before that there is a Longing in the heart. a deep pain of separation.

Have never really told this story. But I know this story is true for I was the Stranger in a Crowd.