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    Out in the All of It
    Out in the All of It
    Out in the All of It
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    Out in the All of It

    By Chris Honoré

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    Out in the All of It captures, through a series of vignettes, those first days and months faced by the author, Chris Honor, after arriving in Colombia, South America, as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Though the Peace Corps puts every volunteer through a robust training program, including intense language preparation, nothing could have fully prepared him to face the exigencies of living in a foreign country of such profound and startling contrasts. While at times harrowing and demanding, the experience proved to be immensely rewarding and, in the end, altered his view of the world forever.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateFeb 22, 2011
    ISBN9781450285742
    Out in the All of It
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    Chris Honoré

    Chris Honoré, is a freelance journalist based in Ashland, Oregon.

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      Out in the All of It - Chris Honoré

      Copyright © 2011 Chris Honoré

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4502-8573-5 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4502-8574-2 (e)

      Printed in the United States of America

      iUniverse rev. date: 2/17/2011

      Contents

      Author’s Note

      Prologue

      At First Light

      The Nuns

      The Hotel

      A Place Apart

      The Book Locker

      Day of the Calves

      La Escoba de Dios

      Bobby

      About the Author

      For my wife Judi, who has, with patience and good humor and love, listened to the stories, such as they are.

      Author’s Note

      Though the Peace Corps experience spans two years, the stories in this collection are taken from the first year in-country when, as a volunteer, I was a stranger in a strange land. While the Peace Corps made every effort to prepare me – there were countless hours of language training, long afternoons on the field of play, deliberative discussions about the host country’s history and traditions, all framed by the phenomenon known as culture shock – the weeks and months that followed my arrival became a personal challenge unlike anything I could ever have anticipated. The vignettes that follow are about that challenge.

      If there is a genre for these stories, it could be called creative nonfiction or fictional memoir. All of the narratives are, however, based on actual experiences and capture, if not the exact time or place or person, truths that I will never forget.

      Prologue

      It was late March, 1962. I was on the U.C. Berkeley campus, walking alone, on my way to a north side café to meet friends.

      Above the road, in the distance, stood a magnificent stone and timber residence hall with a stretching athletic field. On any given day there were students playing on the field, tossing footballs and Frisbees, the street always busy, people walking to class.

      On this day I saw no one. It was eerily quiet.

      Then, around a soft bend in the road, came four cars headed in my direction. A small motorcade. Two police cars led the way, their lights flashing, with one unmarked sedan further back. They bracketed a gleaming black Lincoln convertible with its top down.

      Curious, I waited, watching, as the Lincoln drew near. To my amazement, seated in the back of that imposing car was President Kennedy, his shock of familiar thick hair brushed by the wind. He was, I remembered, scheduled to speak at Memorial Stadium for the university’s Charter Day.

      Looking back, thinking about all that has happened since, I can’t imagine why I was so completely ignored, one solitary individual standing on a sidewalk on a two-lane road. But that seismic day in Dallas was still more than a year away.

      As the motorcade drew parallel, I told myself I wouldn’t react. I’d remain cool, detached. I certainly wouldn’t wave; yet there I was, one arm up in the air, waving excitedly. And then, unexpectedly, he looked directly at me, our eyes locked ever so briefly, and he smiled that incandescent signature smile and I raised up as if I might levitate, both arms in the air, and I waved without restraint, an unabashed stadium wave, a come from behind, just before the buzzer, swish shot from mid-court wave.

      The men in the black sedan, traveling close behind, regarded me coolly, appraisingly, and then the motorcade was gone.

      What lingered and then grew from that day forward was my commitment to an idea that Kennedy had suggested for the first time on October 14, 1960, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. A group of some 10,000 students had gathered, waiting into the earliest hours of the morning, to hear him speak. Kennedy began with some general remarks and then asked, "How many of you, who are going to be doctors, are willing to spend your days in Ghana? Technicians or engineers, how many of you are willing to work in the Foreign Service and

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