Saturday, June 9, 2012

Time to hit the road....








This is the entire staff which included week of hope which does service projects and has around 100 campers and they stay in one location for the summer.  I am doing workcamps and we do labor such as painting, building, and fixing things with around 300-400 participants!!!
So this has been my final week of training and it has absolutely flown by!!!  I’ve met even more new people then I had last week!  On Wednesday my friend Kat and I decided to go for a walk around the lake right behind the school we were staying at, at sunrise.  We were walking when we came across this sign!!!  Apparently elk are not very nice haha!!!   
It's kind of hard to read, but it says DO NOT ENTER, TRAIL CLOSED, PROTECTIVE MAMA ELK!
On Thursday and Friday we met our MC’s who will be doing our camps.  I only got to meet 2 out of the 3, but they are fantastic!!!  I also met one of my directors and he seems like he is going to be doing a lot of pranks on me!  I am really excited to work with all of them.  This is the truck that we will be riding in for the summer!!  
This is the truck we will be driving all summer long!
This is my staff that I’m working with for the summer. 

This is my crew Karen, Tyrus, Chris, Me, and Melissa
We tried another ice cream place...it was very good!!!
On Friday we met with our Project Leader, they are the ones who find places for us and the campers to stay and they are the ones that put all of that together for us.  We found out tons of information about our camp!!!  For our first camp we may be staying at a house on the beach for a few nights at no expense!!!  The people sponsoring our camp are going to be throwing us a huge dinner and apparently there is going to be lobster and everything (too bad I don’t eat lobster!!!).  There are going to be dozens of volunteers to help us with our first camp and we will have about 430 participants for this camp.  Our 2nd and 3rd camps in West Virginia are going to be interesting to say the least, so I will just wait to see how those turn out! On Friday night we also had a commissioning and we finally got our red shirts!!!  It was very exciting, apparently a lot of people usually get let go during training (last year I think there were 4 or 5) and there was only one and they were let go Friday morning.  I’m so excited to have made it, but it’s bittersweet because we will be leaving on Sunday and I am going to miss all the friends that I have made.  
We are officially STAFF!!!
 On Friday night we went and hung out in downtown Estes Park.  They have the cutest shops and restaurants there!  We got ice from Laura’s which was great.  Then we went to grandma’s cookies and she asked us to watch her store while she moved her car.  We had never even met her before!!!  So we did and she was super sweet and talked our ears off for like 20 minutes but we loved it!  Then she gave us all hugs before we left.  We hung out  downtown for a while and then we came back and watched the bachelorette!!! Hahaha I was happy!!! Also, we are starting to get very sick of the food, so we have been eating at McDonald's a lot!

 On Saturday morning I went and got my first chi tea latte...it was sooo good!!! 
I tried my first chi tea on Saturday....it was awesome it tastes like pumpkin pie in a cup

Then we went and loaded our trucks so they are all ready for us to go!!! Even though training was really hard and very tiring I have made some wonderful friends, and I love all my office managers so much and I know I will keep in contact with them!!!

These are the office managers I trained with!  I love them all so much and I am so glad that I met every single one of them :)

 Here’s a shout out to all my wonderful friends that I miss so much, Tricia, Brittany, Reb, Courtney, Sarah ohhh and John too hahah 
Lauren and I on our last night
Cat, Grace, me, and Lauren before we went out Friday night


Cat, Grace, Mike, Me, and Lauren...he wanted to take a picture with us
Cat, Grace, Ben, me, and Lauren...we forced him to take a picture with us
Steven, Cat, Lauren, Grace, Zino, me, Carleigh, and Sammie on our last night

OFF TO DELEWARE WE GO!!!! TRAVELING SCHEDULE!
SUNDAY-OMAHA, NEBRASKA
MONDAY-YORK, ILLINOIS
TUESDAY-ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS









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