Road Trippin to New Orleans

Today began the real journey of AmeriCorps. We left this morning at 8:30 for Knoxville, TN. It took us 13 hours to get here. We got lost along the way and I had a minor bout of car sickness, but we made it. We leave tomorrow at 7:30, (bright and early!) for New Orleans. I just want to get there already. All 11 of my team members and I are going to be staying in a 3 bedroom house with 1 bathroom which should make for an interesting shower situation. We're going to be working on Habitat for Humanity which builds houses for Hurricane Katrina victims as well as other disadvantaged families in the area. I'm really excited for this project. It will really remind me why I signed up for this program in the first place which was to experience new exciting places and help people in need.

Induction into AmeriCorps

 

This is at our Induction ceremony into AmeriCorps. It's all the girls and Rick who happens to be one of the most funniest and random guys in AmeriCorps. We're all doing the "Riiiick" wave.

AmeriLife

I am going to do my best at explaining the last month of my life here in AmeriCorps, but so much has gone on it's hard to sum up in a few sentences. For the first three weeks we went through a lot of different trainings having to do with diversity, CPR, power tools certification and "child friendly spaces." (whatever that means) The good that came out of this is that I am now officially certified to use power tools, give CPR and use an AED (automatic external defibrillator, the electric shock thing that gets people's hearts to beat again). I won't lie training could be pretty brutal sometimes considering it was 8 hours of sitting in back to back lectures, but it's over now!





Well as usual I ran out of time to write, but there's an update.
I'm going to New Orleans for 6 weeks! I'm so excited!!!!