Well, this weeks blog will be the last blog about NCCC until after Christmas break. I may or may not post a blog about my Christmas break i'm not sure yet...we'll just have to see. But anyway, this past week was transition week here in Vinton and all the other teams returned home from their first spike. During that week we had different training classes and community meeting which the 2nd and final one my team had to conduct. Which was fun b/c we made a video titled "The Real World Vinton" haha. It was fun to make and we had good feedback from it. On Thursday the 17th it was "all corps service day", so everybody was sent out to different projects. The difference, though, was that we were all placed on different teams. Everybody on my team for this day was somebody that I haven't been with before. And the ATL's (assistant team leaders) were the TL's for the day and the TL's were just regular corps members. Anyway, my team had an assigment in Cedar Rapids working at 4 Oaks painting rooms. It was pretty cool because we got to paint but also got to know each other quite a bit. And especially for me, it was cool getting to socialize with new faces and get to bond a little bit with them. I had a blast and made some new friends, which I enjoyed a lot. I'll post a few of the pics down below.
A lot of taping was involved in this project and several coats of paint. The ladies that were in charge there were super nice and fed us cookies, drinks etc. And even let us sort through baskets of free Adidas shirts they received and let us pick some that we wanted. I ended up getting three shirts. Pretty sweet.
A few days before the all corps day, on Monday night, my team Cedar 7 was invited to our Spike 1 supervisor's place for a pancake dinner. Well after we ate we played this card game which I can't remember the name of, but it was pretty sweet. She also introduced us to the magic animal in her house. Apparently if you squeeze it, you receive the magic. So we passed it around and started da squeezin'.
Well, i'm home in Alabama as I type this out. Here for 2 weeks and then go back to Vinton, IA for the remainder of my service with NCCC which will be about 7 months, up until July 29th or so. I hope you all have a great Christmas and you stay safe. I'll post again soon. Maybe during break, maybe not...but we'll see! But until then , "My time is up, I thank you for yours." God bless!
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