Hello! Finally have a day in Georgetown to catch up on things! Here is a wrap up from training in Region 2! On one Saturday we had a Culture Day where you had to come dressed as the culture your host family was, bring traditional food and each group spoke about the history of their specific culture. It was really fun and interesting. The three main groups were Amerindians, Indo-Guyanese and Afro-Guyanese. My group was Amerindian so our host moms gave us these costumes to wear, from the Primary School. We made Pepper Pot, a traditional Amerindian dish made of cow face, and Cassava bread, a hard bread made from cassava or a yucca type root. We did a little dance that the kids from the school taught us and it was just a ton of fun!
With our moms!
We also had a Host Family Appreciation day where we made a slide show with a bunch of pictures from the past two months, made food for our families and played lots of different games. It was really nice!
Three of my favorite volunteers, Dorie, Kelsi and Christle!
My "Mom," Sunita Pearson!
The whole Pearson family!
The next day was our Swear in Ceremony! It was more emotional that I expected and really amazing. It had sort of felt like camp for the past couple months being in Mainstay and going to training every day. Now we were becoming real volunteers and going out into our sites to begin our 2 year service! So scary yet so exciting! The Minister of Education and Minister of Health spoke, the US Ambassador spoke and finally our PC Guyana Director spoke. It was really nice, then we were each called up to receive a pin and certificate for finishing training.
The other volunteers from Mainstay and I decided we wanted to do something special since we all had such a great and special bond with Mainstay. Since they are known for their "tigers," really jaguars, we decided to have special dresses and a shirt for John made. We were the talk of the ceremony!
Sam, Rachael, Me, Karin and John rocking our tiger dresses and shirt!
Host sister Lorianne and Mom Sunita!
Dorie, Kelsi and Christle
Loving life!
Mainstay tigers!
Receiving my certificate and pin and becoming a Peace Corps Volunteer!
"It seemed like a long time and also it seemed like my trip had just begun, like I was only now digging into whatever it was I was out here to do." -Wild
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