Official PCV
From John in Chengdu, having completed pre-service training and been sworn-in on Monday, Aug. 22, 2011, as a Peace Corps/US-China Friendship Volunteer by Gary Locke, US Ambassador to The People's Republic of China:
We are officially Peace Corps Volunteers.
It's been a couple busy days -- we saw Bi Joeden's [VP Joe Biden] China Point Speech yesterday at Sichuan University and then woke up early again this morning for some mayhem with Gary Locke [former governor of Washington State, former US Secretary of Commerce] and his posse. Joe Biden was pretty cool yesterday, but he really didn't have much time to do anything but give his speech.
We still have tons of stuff to do in class, and our language exam is Thursday morning.
In the pictures, the smaller group is our group at Sichuan Normal University. The larger group is the entire 2011 China 17 with Gary Locke (second row, in the middle).
I love and miss yall, I will talk to you soon.

