It's official, I completed my first week in AmeriCorps and what a week. My previous update went over most of the boring stuff, like all the paperwork we had to fill out, but yesterday we went on our first service project with our temporary pods (yayyyy!). It was so nice to actually go out and do something opposed to sit and listen to lectures.
My Pod, Raven 6 Ca-Caw! went to an old papermill in Delaware that has been open since the 1700's and closed down in 2007. We had to move all this old equipment from once side of this room to another so they could make room to build a temperature controlled room where they would be able to store all the documents associated with the papermill. It was very dirty work let me tell you, plus the old iron spools we had to move were crazy heavy. Very worth it to finally be out working though. Afterword they took us to this Steamcar museum, nice old snazzy cars.
It's been good, hung out at the Village last night and am going out to the bar with some people tonight. Next week we find out our teams that we will spend the next 10 months with so I can't wait for that. I'll probably update again next week when I decide to walk the 2.5 miles to the library for real internet. Here's some pictures!
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| Half of the room |
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| My lovely bottom bunk. |
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| First day in uniform, it is not flattering in the least. |
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| The red bag. |
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| Part of the mill, we moved all of this including the shelving |
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| Logan with our mascot, the snowman |
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| Heather's hands were cold. |
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| 9-H my new home (Raven and Buffalo) |
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| View of the Chesepeake Bay |
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| The Village where the Moose unit lives |
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