What is important is that we need good communicators who are able to adapt their message to various audiences. We also need people who are capable of renewing themselves, even if they've presided over a thousand citizenship ceremonies. In terms of experience, my colleague here is about a thousand times more experienced that I am as far as ceremonies are concerned. I often ask him, “George, how do you stay enthusiastic?”
The key, as it is for any priest who is officiating over his 5,000th marriage ceremony, is that even if you have a cold and you feel bad, you have to put it in your head before you preside that for the people who are going to stand in front of you it's going to hopefully be their only day of marriage. It is exactly the same phenomenon with citizenship ceremonies. You have to have the capacity to reinvent yourself, re-energize yourself, and always have in the back of your mind that ultimate respect for those people who stand in front of you.