Official PCVs at last!

After almost three months of Spanish instruction, technical training, cultural classes, safety and security orientation, and medical sessions, I am finally an official Peace Corps Volunteer! Twenty-four of my fellow trainees and I swore an oath to the United States on July 19th and became the newest group of PCVs here in Guatemala.

With our host families, Spanish teachers, technical trainers, Peace Corps staff, and the highest ranking official, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon, to ever speak at a PC/G swearing-in all present at Porta Hotel Antigua (the ceremony usually takes place at the Ambassador’s residence in the capital, but he was out of the country at the time), it was quite a proud moment pledging to spend the next two years of my life serving Guatemala.