Hello everyone,
As some of you might know I am currently stationed in northern Maryland in a city called Perry Point. We are actually located near a US naval base along the coast of the Chesapeke Bay. Very beautiful view from my town house looking into the bay. It is great when the sun sets because there are so many different variations and tones of colors your eyes are set on and the weather is gorgeous! It has been raining off and on every other day but for the most part we have been in the consistent 40 degree range.
I figured that throughout this blog I will go into more detail on the different events and things that have happened in bullet-point form. Enjoy...
1. First of all, I live in a town house with 6 other guys who are pretty cool for the most part except for one outcast who does not really want to be a part of anything the other 5 want to do. He sits in the room, bought his own food, and basically not a social person. I find it ironic since he is a 2nd year AmeriCorpite that he would not be more active and excited...cuz I know I surely would be. The other guys are super chill and cool. 3 cook the food and the other 3 of us wash dishes. It is a good trade off.
2. Our house has it's ups and downs as a whole in terms of what kind of condition it is in. The shower is an old school one with the curtain circling around the perimeter of the bath tub. The "hand me behinds" were pretty classic. If you want to know more about those...just ask. We were one of the few houses with carpeted living room/family room AND a tv left behind. Granted the only thing you can watch on there is DVDs.
3. We were put into temporary pod groups for the first week to get a feel of peoples personalities and traits in helping them decide the permanent teams. Our pod group is awesome! We really click and hang out a lot. 4 of us went to church today and a couple of us bonded last night at the bar. Closeness within the group is HUGE. I hope that my permanent group is similiar, but time will tell. With these pod groups we have: had icebreakers, gotten physicals, scavenger hunts, went to training sessions, personal training, AND even grabbed dinner together.
4. There have been talks about road tripping to close places in the area...for example: DC, Philly, Baltimore, NYC, and many more. I love the idea and everyone is so eager to do so. I totally wish I had my car for that reason, but people not knowing how to drive stick-shift was a biggie.
There is a head start on a couple things happening so far. I will keep you all posted every 2 or 3 days or whenever I can swing into the computer lab. It is had considering there are 8 computers in here and over 300 have to share them. No biggie. I am not going to hoard the computer.
If you have any questions about the experience or simply want to learn more about AmeriCorps NCCC, let me know. I would love to hear back from you. Tomorrow we get our permanent teams. Cross your fingers and pray I am put into a good one :) Take care and have a wonderful week!!
PS. Next post will be about the permanent team pod group members, how well we bond together, and the different training sessions that are in store!
