Today we had our swearing in ceremony (or juramentacion) to become real live Peace Corps Volunteers. This was exciting, as these past 2 months we have just been "trainees" and not actual volunteers. The event took place in a hotel in San Vicente and the US ambassador came to give us all of our diplomas. The whole event was in Spanish, except for our oath (same oath the President takes, but sub "Peace Corps Volunteer" for "President of the United States"...pretty cool). All of our host families came, and after the ceremony we had a mini reception with cake and coffee and such. It was a nice close to training.
Tomorrow is El Salvador's Independence Day, which means no training or work. I will be spending the entire day packing up, because on Friday we move out of our host family homes! Saturday we head to San Sal to meet our site "counterparts" (community leaders who have agreed to show us around the first couple months), and then we head to our sites! Wooo!
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| getting my diploma from the ambassador |
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| the entire training group, finally volunteers! |
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| ashley and i and our host parents |
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