Happy Belated Thanksgiving

Not to much new stuff has been going on... I was very thankful and happy that i made it home for thanksgiving... it was a really good week... I ate a lot of good food and hung out with my boyfriend and his family and mine... it was overall a good week... Now im back in the wonderful Moss Bluff with only 2 weeks of work left.... Lots of ups and downs about the work we have been doin... Thankfully this week my team and I get to go and work with a great group of guys on completing a house in Cameron Parish. Im pretty excited about that. We also have to complete 6,000 closed files by Thursday...fun stuff... Also on Thursday the fire Marshall is comming to inspect our housing situation... They will decide whether we have to move out or we get to stay until Dec. 13... i hope all goes well and we get to stay...

Only 18 more days til i get to go home for Christmas!!! Yay!!! Im really excited.. i still have a ton a shopping to do. Not much else to say so good night for now i had a long day of travels...

Moss Bluff

So I havent updated in a while and i finally have the chance...
I have started my first spike and im staying in the wonderful Moss Bluff, Louisiana... (note to everyone, There is nothing around, and nothing to do) but anyway my project is doing disaster relief or at least thats what its suppose to be... So far we have picked up a few piles of trash and shingled one roof.... the rest of the time is spent sitting around or driving. Our wonderful sponsor has pretty much just been giving us busy work cuz he cant think of anything else to have us do. Its a pretty boring work day we sit around for about an hour in the office every morning and wait for him to show up then he tells us to drive about an hour to pick up trash and then we are pretty much done for the day.... but besides that he is a really nice guy and has a great sense of humor... i just wish we actually did work. i feel so unproductive everyday and i dont like it. The only cool thing about the project is we get weekends off and we get a long weekend for the Thanksgiving Holiday.. Which if you dont already know i will be comming home for the holiday from 11/25 to 12/02 im excited my wonderful mother found me some cheap tickets to fly home... Another plus about being here is this amazing weather. For my Birthday it was about 85 degrees and that never happens back in good ole Niagara Falls.... it was great... I thats all i got for now dont really have pictures cuz i havent been taking any but im excited to see my family and boyfriend for thanksgiving I cant wait!!!!


"Trying to get things done"

OBAMA BABY!!!!!!!!

OKAY SO IM GOING TO TYPE IN ALL CAPS TO SHOW MY EXCITEMENT!!.. I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT IM VERY HAPPY RIGHT NOW..... I WAS VERY SCARED THAT THE OLD BALD GUY WAS ACTUALLY GOIN TO WIN.... BUT TO BAD FOR HIM HE DIDNT WIN AND KNOW I DONT HAVE TO MOVE TO CANADA!!!!! I KNOW THIS IS MY AMERICORPS BLOG AND I SHOULDNT BE WRITING ABOUT POLITICS BUT I REALLY DONT CARE AT THIS POINT!!!! RIGHT NOW IM SITTING IN TYLER, TEXAS AND ITS VERY HARD TO HOLD IN THE EXCITEMENT SO I DONT GET SHOT BY ONE OF THE MCCAIN LOVERS!!! ANYWHO IM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
HAPPY IM REALLY EXCITED TO SEE THE CHANGE FOR THE BETTER, I CANT WAIT


P.S THIS IS THE BEST BIRTHDAY PRESENT EVER!!!! OH YEA

"GETTING THINGS DONE FOR AMERICA"

Offical Americorps member!!!!

Today was Induction.... Im done with CTI.... no more training....Come monday we will be heading out on our first spike... its exciting.... The picture on the top is of my Team SUN1!!!!! My teamleader is MaryHellen.... she is awesome......im really tired right now and dont have much else to say ill write more when i get to Louisiana...

"getting things done"

one more week

So im in the final week of training and i've had a good time during CTI. In one week we leave ( oh yea im in SUN 1!!!) for our first spike.... and we are going to ........ Lake Charles, LA YAY!!!!! its about a half and hour from texas and only 3 hrs from New Orleans... We will be staying at a volunteer center... ( i forgot the name ill post it later) pretty much our job will be doing construction... we will be mucking houses and building house and pretty much everything to do with either building or taring down houses.... So im very excited... I will post the address of the place when i get it.... that way you wonderful people can send me packages lol jk.....

Oh yes my duties or roles that i have in the team are: CAPer which stands for Corps Ambassador Program.... what that involves is putting on events in the community to let the youth know about our program and we try to get them to join.... so im a recruiter....... The next role i have is an ISP coordinator... What this involves is trying to find volunteer opportunities for myself and the rest of the team...... We need to complete of a total of 80 individual hrs.... so we have to do volunteer work for non-profits thats is outside of the work we do for our sponsor.....hopefully that makes sense. so those are two of the jobs i have.

Im sorry if my blog posts are all over the place... i just type down what i can remember....in no order...

What else is there to talk about.... well yesterday my whole class went to the air force base in Colorado Springs for the day and we split up into our teams and we went through many different courses.... there was 2 different kinds there was a confidence course where we had to climb,jump,balance, on a bunch of different things...( i didnt bring my camera so i dont have pics sry).... and the next one was a leadership course where as a team we had to work through a punch of different problems.... It was a fun day but im feeling pretty sore today... On saturday is the day where we " graduate" from CTI...... its our induction ceremony... i will take lots of pics...

Oh yea i almost forgot... On sunday i had the chance to do something really cool that i never thought i would get to do.... I got to go downtown and try to attend the Obama Rally in civic park.... It was alot of fun and very interesting.... I said try because we never made it inside the park... the line was extremely long to get in but we stood on the outside and was still able to hear him speak.... pretty frickin awesome.... It was really cool to see so many people come together and celebrate.... there were a ton of people there all decked out in obama clothes and they had there face painted it felt like i was at a football game or something.... And since we didnt get the chance to go in a group of us went around talking to protesters and other people that were for and not for obama....(just so you know we were NOT in our A's) i alsso took some pics of people holding up some interesting signs... (pics up later)

So that was my week... i will try to update before i leave but if not i will post again when i get to the spike site

P.S my 20th bday is next Thursday( DONT FORGET LOL) :)

P.S.S
I forgot to mention that on my myspace page i do have pics up from when i went to Rocky Mt National Park, and of the service project that i did at the Denver Indian Center.... heres the site.. it will take you to my albums and you can look at them in the Americorps album.....

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewAlbums&friendID
=292918237

"GETTING THINGS DONE"

finally sunday

What a weekend.... thats all i have to say.... yesterday was the service project at the Denver city park.... we were building a running trial... it was a long hot day of shoveling dirt and tamping it down.... luck for me, the group of volunteers that i was in charge of were 11 highschool freshmen girls... yay!!!! No it was a good time.... they were hard workers and i was pretty happy with them.... around noon was when we finished the trail and then the real fun started.... it was like one huge party... the mayor came and said some words and thanked the NCCC for all of our help and they had live music so everyone was dancing and having a good time..... they had a lot of different things going on at the park... they had yoga classes and ti chi and different organic food stands.... and a free day at the zoo but the wait to get in was 2 hours so we didnt go in.....
Today a group of us went back to the Denver Indian Center to do some more work... there wasnt much to do so we ended up staying about 4hrs so now im just sitting here relaxing under a tree admiring the view and the hot sunny day.... the weather here is great....
On friday i will be finding out my official team.... im a little nervous but also excited at the same time... in about 2 weeks we will be heading down to texas for our first spike.... i cant wait!!

"getting things done"

one long week

Well, two weeks have already gone by...... it feels like ive been here much longer though.... lots of learning and long days just sitting in one class room.... Today was our first aid/ CPR training class.... and just so everyone knows.... i am know certified to save your life lol..... Um what else.... theres soo much that goes on here its really hard to remember it all..... yesterday was unit building time and healthy lifestyles class.... that was a pretty good class.... they pretty much teach you how to deal with stress in a disaster relief project.... which is what our first "spike" is..... so thats a good thing to know.... oh yea yesterday was also baselines which sucked soo bad.... lots of running and push up and sit ups.... not fun, tomorrow is our service project where we get to build a running trial.... so that should be fun... and sunday i will be goin back to the Denver Indian Center to help out some more with sorting through boxes and painting.... on wensday my team Sun 2 went to there to clean out the stage area... they were using the stage for storage and wanted to get use of the stage so we cleared over 3000 boxes 2000 of which were boxes of hand cream that was donated to them back in 2005.... so we got to take some and the rest was i guess getting thrown away.... so im goin back on sunday to do some ISP hours cuz i need 80 hrs to complete.... so yea theres not really much else to say so im goin for now i have an early 5am start so good night to everyone.....

"getting things done"