It's Official

I left St. Louis on August 22nd and since then it's been 8 weeks of training to prepare us for the next two years of service as volunteers. The training gave me lots of great tools and I thought the 5 trainers were top notch. But what really made the long days a good time was sharing them with the 8 other new volunteers, all of us in it together.

Last Thursday we had our swearing in ceremony to officially become volunteers after passing training. The regional director came in to administer the oath and a representative of the government gave a speech welcoming us and setting high standards for our service.

A bunch of the Taiwanese volunteers on the island came as well as some of our homestay families, school principles and teachers, and our trainers, all to cheer us on. Afterwards we all celebrated with the current PC volunteers, there's 20 of us on the island now.