Brown bag series kicks off

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Heather Sutter spent two years in West Africa with the Peace Corps teaching English. She shared her experience with students at the “Around the World with the Peace Corps” brown bag series held Wednesday.

Sutter, the University of Kansas Peace Corps representative, said her mom told her about the Peace Corps when she was young, and that was when she decided she would eventually join. Sutter volunteered for the Peace Corps two years after graduating from the University of Oregon.

Sutter served in Burkina Faso, West Africa, from 2003 to 2005. She said living with the nationals helped her to understand the culture of Burkinabe life.

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Before this, I thought I wanted to do the Peace Corps, but now I’m sure that I do.

-Elizabeth Patrick, Lenexa senior

“It’s so different from what we experience,” Sutter said. “It’s not even possible to sum it up.”

Elizabeth Patrick, Lenexa senior, said she attended the lecture to learn more about the Peace Corps.

“Before this, I thought I wanted to do the Peace Corps,” Patrick said. “But now I’m sure that I do.”

Patrick, a Spanish major, said she would like to go anywhere in Latin America and volunteer in education or youth development.

Chris Wright, Topeka junior, said he was not sure about joining the Peace Corps, but it was an interesting option. He said the lecture was very informative and that it opened his mind to life in developing countries.

“Here we have very busy lives and over there it’s very simple,” Wright said. “They are happy with what they have, they don’t need all the material things.”

Sutter said she started her position at the University two weeks ago. This was her first time running the monthly series. She said she would like to bring in other returning Peace Corps volunteers in the coming months. She said the series was not just about the Peace Corps, but also about the countries where the volunteer serve. .

The next scheduled lecture will be Sept. 26 at the Kansas Union and will feature a returned volunteer who worked with the Peace Corps in Guyana, South Africa.

— Edited by Meghan Murphy

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