Governor's Visit

Today, Governor Camacho and First Lady Joanne came to the Olympic Village to visit us! They toured our apartments, and inquired about our training. At the end of the visit, we gathered for a photo:




The volunteers here have been truly friendly. They are all college students, and supposedly over a million of them applied, and only 10,000 were accepted. Upon hearing that I am from Guam, they will always ask if we are a colony of the USA. They think our status is like China's Hong Kong! A few also know Guam as a military base for the US, and they tell me the US bases are there to monitor China!

Almost every one of them will eventually ask me if Guam is "wealthy". Are we? It is all relative, but once I tell them we use US dollars, they will all nod their heads and say we are "wealthy".

They are just so happy to meet an overseas Chinese who can speak mandarin.
Here are the volunteers assigned to Guam -- Christine, Wei Wei, and Jay.