I’m here!! In McClellan, California (outskirts of
Sacramento-or “Sac town”) Myself and over 300 other corps members are based at
an old Air Force base, here in the Pacific Region of AmeriCorps NCCC. But let me back up a little bit…
Thursday October 6 my mom and dad brought me to the Grand
Rapids airport to drop me off onto my next adventure! I flew out at 7:45 am and
arrived in Minneapolis at about 8 am (time change…so the flight was an hour but
I gained an hour!) There I met up with
close to 15 other AmeriCorps NCCC member on my same transfer flight, and we
arrived in Sacramento, California at about 11am. And then began the craziness. Hundreds of NCCC corps members were arriving,
and once we arrived on the campus we were shuttled through in-processing, and
then meetings. We were given temporary
rooms which are very similar to the dorms I lived in freshman year of CMU, and
next week our permanent teams will be assigned and so will our permanent
rooms. I’m getting anxious to unpack
everything and hang up my pictures!
We have all been divided into “pods” for our first week of
training. I’m in pod 27 with nine other
names ending in the later part of D….
LOTS of meetings, rules, policies, etc.
We were issued our uniforms yay!! Battle Dress Uniform (BDU) pants and
shorts, long and short grey t-shirts, polos, sweatshirts, parka, coveralls,
hats, sweatshirt all with the AmeriCorps NCCC logo, sleeping bag and our “red
bag” for spikes. I’m actually quite
excited about our uniform, in spite of how unattractive it is on females. It looks wonderful on all the male corps
members, perhaps because they are men’s clothes….
There is quite a diverse group of people here, from all over
the United States! For example, my roommate is from Alaska, my suite mates from
Seattle, LA, and another girl from Michigan.
Lots of different ages and backgrounds and ethnicities. For some this is
their first time away from home, for some this is the first time West of the
Mississippi. Some have graduated high
school, and some have graduated college.
Regardless, it’s a pretty great group of people, and I’m excited to get
to know everyone better.
The next two days we have off! So there are plans to head
downtown Sacramento tomorrow and hopefully reuniting with Raja :)
love and miss you all
k
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