The Volunteers: Gary

After all the local teachers have left for the day, Gary is the only other man on this campus occupied by about 100 women.  Now in some fantasy world or parallel universe that might sound like a good situation, but here in reality it is terrifying.  Anywho, before joining the VOICA International volunteer service, Gary, a resident of San Diego was a Computer Engineer at Sun Microsystems.  He worked there for about two years and then decided that was just about enough taking a year off to travel the world.  An avid surfer, Gary went to various countries seeking the ultimate surf.  A year went by and when it was time to return to Sun Micro., he decided the best thing to do was to...take another year off.  Somewhere in those two years he spent some time working for his father's electrician company and a few months were spent on the slopes in Colorado.  The second year past and when Sun began to hope again that he might be coming back...he decided to head to Africa for two years.  It is an interesting twist of fate that in his flight to avoid all things computer, he is now the teacher for all of the computer classes for the college.  Not only that, once anyone has the label of knowing how to fix computers, they become the most popular person around.  Priests, Sisters, and other volunteers seem to always be asking him to assist with various computer malfunctions.  I think it is a far cry from the stress from the corporate world, and he seems to be enjoying his role as a teacher.  Other than computer classes, Gary also is in charge of Student Government, The Debate Club, Sports on the Secondary side, and maintaining a garden in our back yard.  He hasn't heard anything else from them so I think Sun Microsystems has given up on his eventual return which is probably for the best.