Still no internet :(

I know, I haven't updated my blog in forever. It's not entirely my fault. We were promised internet and still haven't gotten it :( so I'm updating from somewhere off campus.

Well, a lot has happened in the past 3 weeks. We arrived on campus on February 8 and were immediately sent to get our paper work done and our room assignments. I am living in the 9h building of the VA Medical Center.....it's a lot like the dorms freshman year at college. We have communal Showers, kitchens and laundry rooms. I am in a room with 5 other girls and we have one bathroom.....it's pretty funny in the mornings when were all up at the same time, but we make it work.

We were put into our temporary teams (AKA Pods) on the second day. We were only in those teams for about a week. We also started our CTI (Corps Training....I don't remember what the I stands for). CTI is very very very boring, but I know that we have to get through it to be able to go out into the field. It's a lot of lecturing and not much hands on stuff, but it is all very important information. The weather was so crazy here that the first two days we were here we had snow days!!!

After the first week we were put into our permanent teams. Every year they have had the CM's (Corps Members) do something different in order to find their teams. This year we all had to pick a strip of paper...each paper had a CM's name and a song title on it. We had to find the CM that the strip belonged to. Then each TL (Team Leader) was introduced and their song played. When we heard the song that was written on our paper we ran to the TL and took a group photo. My TL's name is Colleen. After our teams were established we started doing PT (Physical Training). PT is at least 3 times a week and starts at 5:50 in the morning :( Other than the time, it's really not that bad....nothing I haven't done before.

That's pretty much it for now!

AmeriCorps Eve

Only 8 hours until I am boarding a plane to Perry Point, Maryland! I can't believe it's finally here. I feel like I'm pretty much prepared to start this thing....my only worry would be if I forgot to pack something and I can't buy it somehow. Packing....oh my god, packing was interesting.....not in a god way. Of course I waited until friday to start packing cause I love to procrastinate with that kind of stuff. Well, I finally figured out what I wanted to bring with me, so I started packing my bag.....Lucky me, everything fits! I wish it could have ended right there, but no....my bag was 8 pounds too heavy! So, I just moved things around between my carry on and big bag....took out a couple things :( and voila, it weighs exactly 50 pounds! Yay! Hopefully the scales at the airport aren't too much different.
My plane leaves bright and early tomorrow morning and I can't tell you how excited I am to be waking up at 4:30 in the morning.....totally kidding, it's gonna suck, but hey...that's why god invented coffee!
I have a feeling that because of the way the weather has been in that area that I'm gonna be waiting at Metro for a while.....I'll be ok though cause I packed all of my DVD's, so I'll be entertained for many many hours!
Well that's about it....I should probably get some sleep so I get more than 4 hours tonight....Oh yeah and congrats to the Saints on winning the Superbowl....I was definitly cheering for the Colts and Peyton though!