Training, Training, Training

I didn't realize I hadn't posted for two weeks now. I've been so busy with everything going on around here in the Ameribubble that I lost track of time. Last I left, I had just gotten my temporary team. Well, last Wednesday I got my permanent team! I am now a member of Pine 5, with ten other members and our Team Leader. I won't bore you with the list of trainings we hard to do these past two weeks. Like I said, I've been really busy. This post is mainly to prove that I'm still alive. I will touch on just a couple things though.

First, NCCC has everyone in the group hold a role for the year. There are six, and mine is Service Learning Initiator (hereby known as SLI). I did SLI last year, and I was hoping to not get it again, but the only other one I wanted, Support Ranger, got taken, so I decided to give it another go. Basically we're the ones asking questions. Why are we doing this? What do we or the community get out of this project we do? We facilitate reflections for the rest of the team to think back on the project to try and take something positive out of something that might have gone so horribly wrong.

The other thing is that each team has one specific role given to us by FEMA. Pine 5 is technically a hybrid team. We have nine of us as Logistics Specialists, and two members are Logistics Systems Specialists. Basically we set up and take down FEMA offices during disasters, and assist with distributing items needed in the community. I'm really excited for it.

But now I have more training that I have to get to. I'm very tired because we had our first real PT at 5:30 this morning, but I've got to get over it because we have a ropes course in Iowa City this afternoon, and then we're going to stay up there for a couple of hours and just hang out and eat dinner. It's going to be awesome!

Until next time.