In case you might feel the need to send me a note or some sweet knee-high socks or some other love by snail mail, here's my address ...
Amy McIntosh/ Silver 6
Americorps*NCCC Western Region
3427 Laurel St.
McClellan, CA 95652
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Silver 6, y'all
We've finally been sorted into our groups that we'll being living, breathing, working, and eating with for the next 10 months! I'm a member of Silver 6. There are 12 of us on the team and we're from all over the place. There's one girl who's a Maryland alum, which is pretty neat. We're all a little quiet as yet... still getting used to the idea that we need to get to know a new group of people right after we just finished getting to know our old group (our pod). But I think we have potential. Our team leader's name is Morgan and she seems like a great girl and a capable leader.
We had a funny scavenger hunt event yesterday afternoon to hype up the process of finding out our teams. Ours involved a phone call to a Korean guy who pretended that he didn't speak English, reading off a phonetically spelled Kor-English sentance to said guy, telling a joke to a roomate in hopes that we could make her laugh and get our next clue, and finally finding our team van! We're problem-solving right off the bat.
Just in case you were wondering what that prize-winning joke was... I've got it here for you, dedicated reader.
Why shouldn't you take a shower with a Pokemon?
Because he might Pikachu!
Pretty quality.... almost better than my Beethovan joke.
Today's adventures include van driver training and taking to the roads of downtown Sacramento and the highways that connect us here in the stripmall outpost of McClellan to the bustling metropolis. Saturday is what I'm really looking forward to though... there's an all-campus service day scheduled when we're going to be working in and starting community gardens around the area.
We had a funny scavenger hunt event yesterday afternoon to hype up the process of finding out our teams. Ours involved a phone call to a Korean guy who pretended that he didn't speak English, reading off a phonetically spelled Kor-English sentance to said guy, telling a joke to a roomate in hopes that we could make her laugh and get our next clue, and finally finding our team van! We're problem-solving right off the bat.
Just in case you were wondering what that prize-winning joke was... I've got it here for you, dedicated reader.
Why shouldn't you take a shower with a Pokemon?
Because he might Pikachu!
Pretty quality.... almost better than my Beethovan joke.
Today's adventures include van driver training and taking to the roads of downtown Sacramento and the highways that connect us here in the stripmall outpost of McClellan to the bustling metropolis. Saturday is what I'm really looking forward to though... there's an all-campus service day scheduled when we're going to be working in and starting community gardens around the area.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Do you have steel toe combat boots in your closet?
Because I do! My new black leather, steel toe boots are my favorite part of my Americorps uniform. Other than my feet, Americorps is also covering me with tee shirts and polos and some not-so-fashionable rip-stop khakis. There's a pretty strict code of conduct in place while we corps members are "wearing the A", as it's put, which includes no bad language, no politicking, and no visiting bars. Guess I won't be using the uniform to help me pick up chicks :)
After chatting about this week's experiences with my dad, an experienced military man, I learned that the paperwork and in-processing and shots and physicals might be called zero week. We're getting used to the rules and learning our way around town and breaking in our uniforms, but we still have plenty of free time to sit around and chat with all the friendly kids that are here. Nearly everyone I've met is super-friendly and approachable-- we have some funny converstations about what town everyone's from and what all we've done over the summer. I've also learned that there is indeed about 6 degrees of seperation between two given people. For example, I played pool last night with a bunch of kids and chatted with one guy who lived in Minnesota and went to school in Illinois. Not so many things in common between a cowboy-booted Midwesterner and myself, one might think. But as we came to find out, his family is all from Towson, MD and he goes back to visit them a few times a year! He's also a fan of exploring Loch Raven. Small world, indeed.
After chatting about this week's experiences with my dad, an experienced military man, I learned that the paperwork and in-processing and shots and physicals might be called zero week. We're getting used to the rules and learning our way around town and breaking in our uniforms, but we still have plenty of free time to sit around and chat with all the friendly kids that are here. Nearly everyone I've met is super-friendly and approachable-- we have some funny converstations about what town everyone's from and what all we've done over the summer. I've also learned that there is indeed about 6 degrees of seperation between two given people. For example, I played pool last night with a bunch of kids and chatted with one guy who lived in Minnesota and went to school in Illinois. Not so many things in common between a cowboy-booted Midwesterner and myself, one might think. But as we came to find out, his family is all from Towson, MD and he goes back to visit them a few times a year! He's also a fan of exploring Loch Raven. Small world, indeed.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
The way you wiggle your antenna...
...You know you give me such bliss,
Come on come on come on, banana slug,
Won't you blow me a kiss?
Come on come on come on, banana slug,
Won't you blow me a kiss?
So goes the fantastic "Banana Slug Song," extremely popular with me and the fifth graders at the San Mateo Outdoors School. Before leaving for NCCC in just a few days, I took a little road trip down the beautiful California coast to visit my old roommate, Liane. She has one of the coolest job in the world, I'm thinkin'. She gets to live in the beautiful sticks of coastal redwood forests, hang out with kids, sing songs and dance around in costume, see banana slugs on a daily basis, and teach her 5th graders about the environment. Awesome!
Just a few more days left of fun and games in California before I get down to NCCC work. Catching up with friends and family has been wonderful and relaxing and now I'm ready to start working and serving. I have to say that I'll miss sleeping in, however. 5:30 AM wake-up call is going to be a bit rough.
Just a few more days left of fun and games in California before I get down to NCCC work. Catching up with friends and family has been wonderful and relaxing and now I'm ready to start working and serving. I have to say that I'll miss sleeping in, however. 5:30 AM wake-up call is going to be a bit rough.
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