Ok, so I wasn't able to take many pics this past week and this is the only one I did take haha....my friend Pat was "balancing" on the rails and he was sooo excited about it. He actually has what is called a "slack line" that he attaches to two trees and balances on those. Its pretty cool and pretty hard to do. I've tried it.
Anyway, so this week has gone by sooooo fast and I haven't had time to write in my journal so it's not like I have a lot of material to refer back to except for my own brain (oooh boy). But i'll give it my best shot. My days are starting to run together so be patient with me. One day of training we spent part of the day learning car maintenance. We learned how to change a tire and also how to put on snow chains if needed. Which they've told us if we ever need those then there better be a good reason why we're still out on the road. But anyway, it was pretty cool. Most stuff I already knew, but a few things I didn't.
We eventually got our permanent teams on Thursday. The TL's had this scavenger hunt planned out and we had to take our piece of paper and go to a location that led us to another location etc. etc. At each station there was a person completely covered from head to toe with a mask, sleeping back, hat...you know, whatever it took to COMPLETELY disguise their identity. We kinda figure it out that they were the TL's and eventually the station we got to in the end the TL there would be our TL. Well, I eventually got to the last station and met my "team" and after a while the TL revealed themselves and it was Daniel! I was like "sweet!". I wanted him. But then he was like ,"surprise, i'm not your TL." What!? lol we were confused. He said we had one more station to go to, and gave us another paper to go to another location. And there I found my REAL team and my REAL TL Terrence. I like him too so it was all good. We were all so glad to finally get this out of the way b/c everybody was getting so antsy and nervous about the whole thing. On Friday we spent the entire day going to the classes that we wanted to that taught about the team positions we could hold. I ended up going to the yearbook class which basicly means I take a lot of pics and write a short summary of things and turn them in to " The Altitude" (campus newspaper/yearbook). I also want to be the "team counselor" and the "Assistant Team Leader" but those won't get decided until 2nd Spike come January.
On Saturday we had this thing called "World Cafe" that the TL's had set up in the caf and it basicly was an event that helped us realize the poverty issues surrounding the world today, how lucky we are, and helped us to think of ways to help out. It was pretty sweet and I enjoyed it a lot. There were 3 different stations that each team has to go to and each one helped you get a better understanding of issues in the world and in our own backyard even.
Saturday, our team (Water 3!) was going to go hiking. But first Terrence wanted to take us to a fairly local Farmer's Market. So we spent about an hour there and actually ran into a few other teams. It was pretty cool and had a good time. And since we were already there and it was about lunch time he asked if we want to just stay and go to the Pearl Street Mall and find shops and eating places. And of course we did, so we spent the next 1 1/2 hours there. Afterwards, we began the drive to go hiking and it turned out that all the parking spaces were full b/c of all the people hiking and playing at the park that day. So we ended up going to another park and just hanging out there. At the park we made expectations for the group and for ourselves. I think we had a better understanding of each other and what each expects from the group for the year. It was nice and I think we'll all be fine.
As I sit here writing this it is 2:48 PM in Denver, CO on a Sunday afternoon and tonight we are all taking Jessica out to dinner (and possibly bowling I think?) for her birthday that was yesterday. We were going to go last night but we ended up not b/c something came up. Anyway, she's 19 now and we're gonna take her out for dinner. We actually had about 10-15 cards taped to her door the night before her birthday so when she woke up she was bombarded (sp?) with b'day cards. I think she liked them. And she seemed to have a pretty good day yesterday so that's good.
Oh! And one more thing before I go! We found out my team's first project and it is going to be in Wickes, AR doing trail building. We leave next Saturday on the 14th and will get back I think on the 16th of December. It's pretty cool and i'm excited about it. I'm sorry about this post not having any pics and not really that organized but once we leave for our first spike it'll be more interesting and full of pics i'm sure. I hope you've all had a good week and i'll be writing again soon! "My time is up, I thank you for yours." God bless!!!
We eventually got our permanent teams on Thursday. The TL's had this scavenger hunt planned out and we had to take our piece of paper and go to a location that led us to another location etc. etc. At each station there was a person completely covered from head to toe with a mask, sleeping back, hat...you know, whatever it took to COMPLETELY disguise their identity. We kinda figure it out that they were the TL's and eventually the station we got to in the end the TL there would be our TL. Well, I eventually got to the last station and met my "team" and after a while the TL revealed themselves and it was Daniel! I was like "sweet!". I wanted him. But then he was like ,"surprise, i'm not your TL." What!? lol we were confused. He said we had one more station to go to, and gave us another paper to go to another location. And there I found my REAL team and my REAL TL Terrence. I like him too so it was all good. We were all so glad to finally get this out of the way b/c everybody was getting so antsy and nervous about the whole thing. On Friday we spent the entire day going to the classes that we wanted to that taught about the team positions we could hold. I ended up going to the yearbook class which basicly means I take a lot of pics and write a short summary of things and turn them in to " The Altitude" (campus newspaper/yearbook). I also want to be the "team counselor" and the "Assistant Team Leader" but those won't get decided until 2nd Spike come January.
On Saturday we had this thing called "World Cafe" that the TL's had set up in the caf and it basicly was an event that helped us realize the poverty issues surrounding the world today, how lucky we are, and helped us to think of ways to help out. It was pretty sweet and I enjoyed it a lot. There were 3 different stations that each team has to go to and each one helped you get a better understanding of issues in the world and in our own backyard even.
Saturday, our team (Water 3!) was going to go hiking. But first Terrence wanted to take us to a fairly local Farmer's Market. So we spent about an hour there and actually ran into a few other teams. It was pretty cool and had a good time. And since we were already there and it was about lunch time he asked if we want to just stay and go to the Pearl Street Mall and find shops and eating places. And of course we did, so we spent the next 1 1/2 hours there. Afterwards, we began the drive to go hiking and it turned out that all the parking spaces were full b/c of all the people hiking and playing at the park that day. So we ended up going to another park and just hanging out there. At the park we made expectations for the group and for ourselves. I think we had a better understanding of each other and what each expects from the group for the year. It was nice and I think we'll all be fine.
As I sit here writing this it is 2:48 PM in Denver, CO on a Sunday afternoon and tonight we are all taking Jessica out to dinner (and possibly bowling I think?) for her birthday that was yesterday. We were going to go last night but we ended up not b/c something came up. Anyway, she's 19 now and we're gonna take her out for dinner. We actually had about 10-15 cards taped to her door the night before her birthday so when she woke up she was bombarded (sp?) with b'day cards. I think she liked them. And she seemed to have a pretty good day yesterday so that's good.
Oh! And one more thing before I go! We found out my team's first project and it is going to be in Wickes, AR doing trail building. We leave next Saturday on the 14th and will get back I think on the 16th of December. It's pretty cool and i'm excited about it. I'm sorry about this post not having any pics and not really that organized but once we leave for our first spike it'll be more interesting and full of pics i'm sure. I hope you've all had a good week and i'll be writing again soon! "My time is up, I thank you for yours." God bless!!!
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