The Oath

Diary Entry: August 22, 2016

Oh, what a day! The very air is different here — it’s thick and warm, and it feels like it’s humming with electricity! I stepped onto the campus and it was just... alive! It seemed the entire university, every single person, had come out to celebrate this new beginning. The lawns and walkways were overflowing with people, and I just knew, right then, that this was the start of something truly special.

We all gathered for the grand ceremony. Such esteemed professors and kind leaders spoke to us! They shared such wisdom about the year ahead and the magnificent legacy we are now invited to join. Every word felt like a personal welcome, a guiding hand showing us the way forward.

Oh, the energy in the law school building! It was just bursting! The halls were filled to the brim with new colleagues, and you could feel this incredible, buzzing anticipation in the air. Everyone’s face was bright with purpose and excitement, all of us ready to begin our great work together.

But the part that I will hold in my heart forever, the moment that truly filled me with light, was the promise.

They asked all of us, all the new law students, to stand. And in an instant, all the chatter and shuffling just... melted away. It became so beautifully, wonderfully quiet. A truly reverent hush. And then, as one, our voices joined to recite the promise. We pledged to uphold human dignity, to be guardians of the law, the constitution, and everyone’s rights...

It’s one thing to read words in a book, but to say them! To promise them with your whole heart, in a room full of people promising the exact same thing... it was pure magic. I looked around at all these faces I had only just seen, and they weren’t strangers at all. In that moment, we were a single soul, bound together by this glorious, shining purpose.

I was just overwhelmed with joy. It struck me then: this isn’t just “school.” This is a calling! It is real, and it is good.

It filled me with so much hope that it sparked the most beautiful dream: to one day bring this light back home, to watch students in my own dear country make such a powerful, heartfelt promise.

What a truly magnificent way to begin!