swearin-in

I added a bunch of pictures from our last week in Morogoro, so check them out from the photo stream.

We've been back in Dar for a couple of days which has been a lot of fun because we're all back in one big group again. It's also nice to have some freedom back. I will really miss my host family, especially Isaac, but am excited to be in charge of my own schedule/life/etc. Anyways we've mostly just been hanging out and doing logistics stuff...All of the headmasters of our schools came to Dar and we met with them this morning. My headmaster seems really nice, but it was a bit awkward to come up with lots of things to talk about...should be even more fun sitting next to each other on the10 hour bus ride on down to site.

Tomorrow I will officially swear-in as a PCV! We recently had one volunteer go home, which was sad but for the best, so there will only be 38 of us swearing-in. We have a big celebration tomorrow morning at the US Embassy, that will consist of taking an oath, lots of speeches and singing songs (American and Tanzanian national anthems), and we are evening putting on a performance of the Beatles song "With a Little Help from my Kiswahili (Friends)" that was rewritten with Kiswahili lyrics...it is probably going to sound pretty terrible but will be fun nonetheless. Then tomorrow evening we are going over to the US Ambassador's house for a Thanksgiving dinner. Thursday morning I'll wake up at 4 am and hop on a 6 am bus ride for Mtwara!

Hopefully I can post some more pics after our swearing-in ceremony. All the guys will be sporting "swearing-in staches" so they should look pretty nasty.

Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!