Swearing in Ceremony

Our Swearing in Ceremony is a really big deal because they’re going to tie our ceremony with the “50 years in Cameroon” celebration, because our group marks the 50^th year that Peace Corps has been in Cameroon.  So there are going to be a lot of government officials and the fair at the end of the ceremony is open to the general public, so we’re expecting upward of a thousand people!  A peace Corps tradition is to have the Swearing In Trainees to do something fun and American for our audience, and normally the group will do a skit or a dance or something, but because this year is super special, figuring out what we’re going to perform has taken a really long time.  So yesterday, finally, after A LOT of indecision, discussion and changed plans, we finally decided that we will sing “Man in the Mirror” by Michael Jackson.  The song is obviously a classic, but it’s also very appropriate for us and the message we want to send to all people we’ll be performing in front of.  Everybody knows that my favourite quote is “Be the change you want to see in the world” by Gandhi.  So this song is pretty perfect in conveying exactly that; I’m not going to post the lyrics to the entire song, but I will post the chorus, because I think it’s beautiful and I’m really looking forward to singing it with my fellow Volunteers:

 “I'm Starting With The Man In
The Mirror
I'm Asking Him To Change
His Ways
And No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place
Take A Look At Yourself, And
Then Make A Change,

Amazing huh? Oh and while we’re singing, we’re going to have a video playing on a giant screen behind us.  The video is going to be a montage of all of us trainees.  it’s mainly going to be pictures, but there will be video interviews also.  So we’re going to be the soundtrack to the video! Yay!