Swear in was a great way to finish three very tough months. It
was held at the president of Mali’s house and we all got to dress up in beautiful Malian fabric. I wore perfectly tailored blue
basin dress. It felt great to dress up again. Here's a picture with all of us and ATT. It's the one Peace Corps used on their website to announce us as new volunteers. I have no idea what I was looking at...
The night before we all got to go out downtown Bamako and
celebrate. We ate at a Chinese place that served shawarmas then
went straight to the club. At the fist club our stage name was announced. My superlative was 'most likely to be
mistaken as Jackie O' so when they said we were “The Kennedys” I was pretty
excited. It was a crazy coincidence because they had given us our names before the superlatives were announced but in the speech they did call me and my
friend Meredith out as being Jackie and Marilyn at the talent show.
The best part of swear in for me was knowing that the next
day I was finally heading to site. I couldn't wait to get to my new house and
get settled. We had so much back and
forth with training and I was ready to call one spot home.
I can't believe this was 7 months ago!! I promise to do a better job updating my blog!!
