Anyway, yes it was hard to leave Bo. From Bo we all went to Freetown for the
swearing in ceremony. It was kind of
strange, most of us were staying in the same hostel that we stayed in when we
first arrived in country, the difference between us then and now was
obvious. We got to see the Peace Corps
compound and that is a really cool place.
It has a med building, volunteers tend to need that a lot, it has a
couple of admin and programing buildings, and it also has a hostel for the
volunteers to use when they have work to do in Freetown. The whole compound is beautiful and sits on
top of a tall hill overlooking Freetown and the ocean.
The swearing in ceremony was exciting. We were all dressed in traditional Africana
gara. A lot of the Salone 3 volunteers who
had helped train us came too so it was great.
The American Ambassador was the one who swore us in. I think they said it was the same oath that
all appointed positions of government must take, except Obama, but his is
similar just with more added on ha ha.
Anyway from there we went to the beach.
Finally. It was a great, great
day. We swam and ate and drank and had
fun together all day, after working our asses off for the last 2 and a half
months. That ceremony was in a way the
culmination of years of effort to become Peace Corps Volunteers for many of
us. It was an awesome day. At the end of the night though things did get
a little sad. We were all going to our
own sites in the morning and I had to say good bye to my best friend here and
that sucked. She was placed in the South
of the country, which is not super easy to get too. Sad.
The next morning saying goodbye to all the people I care
about was really hard. I’m very lucky to
have made such good friends here, but it made saying good bye that much
harder. I left Freetown around 9 in the
morning with 2 of my site mates and another volunteer who lives near our
town. On top of our car were our 4 huge
metal trunks, 4 mountain bikes and a mattress covered with a tarp because it
was pouring rain. It was about 3 ½ hour
drive, not too bad. Then we got to my house,
unpacked my stuff and I was alone in my new home. Wow.
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