Here is a photo of me accepting my post as official Peace Corps Volunteer for the next 24 months from the new Country Director Nina Hernandez who once lived just up the block from us when we lived at Teachers College. She served in South Africa in the 1990s (the first group post-apartheid; is originally from the D.R. and is very impressive -- as are all the PC staff. in the background is Sir Colville Norbert Young, Governor General who is the Queen's (of England) representative at whose home this took place. It was a great day ending with dinner (a superb Indian dinner) at the home of U.S. Ambassador Vinai K. Thummalapally who was the President of MAM-A Inc., formerly Mitsui Advanced Media, manufacturer and distributor of archival recordable optical discs. He talks about his lack of diplomatic history, relationship with Obama, and is irreverent as they come. In my case, he has contacts in the area of micro finance and women and after a brief conversation has followed-up with some leads. And more important--his wife Barbara Thummalapally knows all "our" music!!! (That is her holding the microphone.)