July 12th, 2013
I had my Swearing in Ceremony on July 12, 2013! Now I am
officially part of the Peace Corps Georgia family! All 30 of us (the trainees)
got up super early…6:30ish mumbled goodbyes and farewells to our PST host
families and boarded the PC caravan that drove us the hour and half to Tbilisi.
The Swearing In Ceremony is kind of a swanky event. PC invites one member of
your PST host family, one member of your new host family and your
school’s/organization’s director. We get all dressed up, give speeches, say oaths,
cut cake, and have live performers come and give a performance on stage for
us. It’s so swanky that we have to do a
practice run of the whole event. Unfortunately I made the mistake of placing my
bag in the marshutka that broke down on the way there so for a while I thought
I would have to swear into the government in a pair of jeans and some black
converses…The marshutka came in time though.
My cluster mate Ann and I, along
with a few other volunteers, performed both Georgian and the American national anthem
for the ceremony…we had no idea though that we would be on Georgian tv later
that night…another reason I was glad that my formal clothes had arrived on
time.
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| My invitation, Peace Corps Pin, and my certificate. |
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| It's Official!!! |
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| Nora, Brenna and I in the front Swearing In |
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| Maura, our country director, cutting cake |
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