The Ambassadors

This week the new ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa came to visit and he spent an evening with the Peace Corps. One volunteer from each sector of work prepared a presentation to give an overview of the kinds of work that we are undertaking here in country. There only being 2 special needs education volunteers in our program, I had the 50 percent chance of being asked to present, which I was. So the 8 chosen volunteers made up our power point presentations and we practiced our traditional Samoan dances that we learned in training so that we could perform those as well. It was a nice evening, and was kind of exciting to present what's going on here to someone "official"- plus it was neat hearing about other peoples' projects as well. This was actually the second time that we've had a representative from the government come and we've held a presentation session for them which is kind of nice- we're quite used to being ambassadors of the American way of life with Samoans, but it's neat to get to be an ambassador of Samoan life to Americans as well.