[speaker001:] kind of a heavy topic tonight right about uh
[speaker002:] that's you have to start the new year out by the way Happy New Year
[speaker001:] thank you same to you what do you think about the uh that idea that they're recommending for the young people
[speaker002:] I hadn't really heard that before um
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] I had at one point thought about doing the Peace Corps myself many years ago um
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] you know many years ago it seemed like they had uh um involuntary enlistment and mainly like in the fifties I know a lot of uh men that were into the military you had to go into the military
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] um I don't know about that a lot of people I don't think would like it because it's gonna interrupt college plans but a lot of people don't have plans so for them it might give them a little help to uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] get uh some kind of more awareness about the world and be of some use for a while
[speaker001:] uh-huh I I personally think it would be a a good idea um I have kind of a same well it's not a really a Peace Corps experience it's a little bit similar you may assume that being from Utah member a member of the Mormon church and we do a lot of missionary work and I spent two years when I was nineteen in Argentina
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum um
[speaker001:] and uh I'll tell you that gives you a different perspective of uh you know some of the things we have here in this country that uh people really uh don't appreciate and seeing a different culture and uh getting to know a kind of a different a different people I think was a good experience for anyone regardless of uh you know their particular endeavor they're engaged engaged in I think just getting out of the country is a great benefit to anyone so have you ever lived abroad or spent anytime outside of the United States
[speaker002:] um-hum I haven't no but um I had known of the Peace Corps because I had a cousin in the Peace Corps course you know it was much more publicized in the sixties I don't even know if they have it today
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah
[speaker002:] I had a friend though in the seventies join uh Vista
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] which is a similar program although you stay within the US which can be very beneficial too I mean a lot of times there's a lot of help we can do within the US um and that
[speaker001:] yeah oh sure you bet
[speaker002:] it program I thought was excellent
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] um I just don't think they even I don't know if they have those programs anymore or if they even try to publicize it and recruit and I think that's a shame because both of those programs programs are excellent and uh hopefully don't
[speaker001:] and I it seems like they excuse me but it seems like they used to advertise it on TV in the the Peace Corps
[speaker002:] I don't remember I just I haven't seen it recently
[speaker001:] yeah so
[speaker002:] not that you know not down here any I don't I don't remember seeing anything about Vista or or the Peace Corps recently
[speaker001:] um-hum well I think it would be a good idea is a it is kind of a delicate time but by the same token at that age they haven't really settled down don't have a family or other commitments as well and so there's some divantages to going at that particular time in your life
[speaker002:] right right
[speaker001:] and uh well well I think
[speaker002:] yeah I think it would be extremely beneficial to just about everybody
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] um I I could see that there'd be some people that you know would throw up their arms about it and go I'm going to Harvard and I you know this isn't something I wanna do but uh you're right it would give everybody a better perspective of uh you know ourselves and what we have maybe make us appreciate what we have a little more so
[speaker001:] yeah um-hum yeah that's that's certainly my was my experience just uh it was like the the uh clock had been turned back about ten or fifteen years
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] you know just the difference in the technologies in the two countries the kinds of cars they drove the you know simple things like central heating and uh and having a gas fired um water heater you know things that that we really appreciate are are not commonplace in in every uh in every uh city that I was uh living in
[speaker002:] um right I had uh twice now been a big sister you've heard of big brothers big sisters
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah
[speaker002:] and uh I have had uh two little sisters and even though they were local to me it was almost being in a different world because both of my sisters little sisters came from very poor backgrounds
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and of course they don't have usually normal families I mean there's not a a mother and a father and
[speaker001:] yeah right
[speaker002:] they live in pretty poor housing and um their education is very lacking because their parents you know don't uh encourage them to go to school
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] um so that was beneficial to me as well as the child because uh made me appreciate my background a little more and I helped to give this person um a more one on one idea of there can be a different life than what they've had and it to uh experience some things that otherwise they wouldn't be able to get out and do
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah is that uh a program where you're you uh commit for a certain number of months or or you you're assigned a a child and you you stay with them for as long as you can
[speaker002:] it's usually a year um and they try to find somebody in the local area to you and um you know the age group that you wanna work
[speaker001:] uh-huh