need2make_another_me

I strongly advise against obsessively micro-judging your "success" day by day or hour by hour. You signed up for an overall mission, not a series of constant, perfectionist hourly triumphs. Just being there and sharing yourself (even not all the time) is the goal you are achieving.

If you want to leave, you tell Peace Corps and you leave. It's a volunteer position, not a prison sentence.

How does one hitchhike to Hawai'i?

I find this a much better way to explain the benefit than the schlocky, condescending and moralizing way OP put it. As an atheist who's never been drunk, pregnant, missed work, nor broken a bone, this post almost convinced me I shouldn't bother.

returned PC volunteer here. In my country, we only lived with a host family during the 2 month training period. As a lifelong loner/introvert, the host family experience was torture. Once that was over, everything was much better for me. I couldn't imagine having to live with a helicopter host family for the whole 2 years.

As for the lack of anonymity, I kind of enjoyed being a rock star. It's interesting to see the world from the other side of that superficial viewpoint, too.