Until you complete the 11 weeks of Peace Corps training you not officially a ¨Volunteer¨. We survived the training and had our graduation on April 4th. It was quite a nice, formal event with the Country Director and the Consular General from the Guayquil consulate leading the ceremony. (Cherith was starting to walk off before I could get here pic like this. Sorry Cherith.)
Here is the oath we had to take. It´s essentially the same oath that indivuals take when they´re swearing into the military. The big differences being that we won´t get any weapons training and we can say we want to go home at any time.
And here we are next to JFK, the president that started it all. The Peace Corps is 51 years and they´ve been in Ecuador for 50 years.
Here´s the stage without any people. It was a nice event. Now, on to Bucay for the next chapter of our experience...more to follow.
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