Earth Day mustaches

After tech trip we were in Quito for a week, which was a bit crazy and a lot of fun. We got there Friday and Saturday we had all of our final evaluations in the morning and then the afternoon and Sunday free. We had more training Monday-Wednesday and went into Old Quito to the church and main plaza. Thursday was our swearing-in ceremony at the Ambassador’s residence and it was also Earth Day, which was fitting for the NRC and Ag programs. At some point during training the guys decided that they were going to have mustaches for swearing-in, and 16 of the guys did it, more than half. So basically they all stopped shaving and then in the week leading up to swearing-in they started shaving to different degrees and showing up with all kinds of combinations of facial hair. They all looked rather dashing of course. Then finally at the ceremony they were all down to mustaches and Parmer, our Country Director, shaved to a mustache too and it was kind of the theme of the ceremony with mustaches coming up in all the speeches. And for some reason that’s difficult to explain it felt really important that we had this running joke going on involving most of the group. And now we’re PCVs!




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