"Service is Important to Me"

“I chose the Peace Corps for many reasons, and in many ways, Tonga chose me,” Scarlett Vogle, of Alexandria, said at Biddle’s Brewing in Williamsburg last Wednesday evening October 23.

She was on a break from the Peace Corps and was doing two lectures during her time back in the States.

“There are so many reasons I wanted to join the Peace Corps – I applied when I was fresh out of college and ended up teaching abroad through a different organization, and then applied in February of 2020,” Vogle said. “I nearly gave up, but they finally reopened posts in the Pacific.

Peace Corps offers the oppo...