Hello!
I've been meaning to post now for the past 2 and a half days..but the internet here has been TERRIBLE. We don't have wireless, we have ethernet cords...which I thought meant that we wouldn't have any trouble..but I was wrong...
Anyways...we got our permanent teams and first assignments on Monday!! First we had to sit through a shelter simulation training and a "Save the Children" presentation..but then they began the revealing. We each had colored puzzle pieces and had to find the other people's pieces that fit with ours...on our puzzle was a picture of a milk jug, so we found another group that had a cookie..and we were all one big team..then we had to do some scavenger hunting until we eventually met our Team Leader. My team leader's name is Ally, she's from San Diego, and she's super nice. I am really happy with the rest of my team as well. Two of my good friends that are already here are on my team: Katy from North Carolina and Quindeshia from New Orleans. Besides us 3, there's 7 others..3 girls and 4 boys. Everyone seems fun and I think we'll get a lot accomplished.
After we found Ally she informed us that we will be going to.....JOPLIN, MISSOURI!! I am so so so excited about this because I've been wanting to do disaster relief all along! It is obviously not immediate disaster relief because the tornadoes happened in late spring/early summer, but I am still excited to be doing continuing disaster relief there. Plus, many of the team leaders this year got to go there last year and they said we'd have a great time. Our sponsor organization that we will be working with and that will be training us is The St. Louis Emergency Response Team. We don't know exactly what we will be doing, but they've given us a few descriptions including rebuilding and restoring building and homes, maybe fixing up some parks, things like that. We also have not had our housing confirmed yet, but we will be finding that out soon. All I can say is that I CANNOT WAIT to be there!! :) :)
So with the excitement of Monday, the rest of the week has kind of been dragging. It's pretty much lecture after lecture. Yesterday (Tuesday) we had CPR and First Aid training, which I know is necessary, but it was a long day. So far today we've had a "quality of life" lecture with our counselor and I'm about to head off to tool training. As for the rest of the week, I'm not really sure what it entails.
Everything's still going great...except now that I know where were going I just want to go instead of stay here and finish CTI. Haha, but we're all in the same boat, so we'll get through it!! Hope all is well for everyone at home.
Love,
Abby
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