It's been a while since I've written any sort of journal entry using song lyrics as the title and/or to start off an entry but Sara Bareilles' "Vegas" sums up how I've been feeling these past few days.
It's been a weird transition week. On so many levels, for myself and a lot of people [in my unit]. I don't know. It seems like it's a combination of a bunch of different things: people switching teams, people leaving, and just the sole fact that we've spent a round with a different team. And from what I've been hearing, a lot of people really liked their shuffle team a bit more than their permanent teams for one reason or another. Oh well, it's over now. Tomorrow everyone's off to their 4th and final project of their AmeriCorps NCCC careers for this term. I say everyone's off (not including my team) because my team is staying an extra day for training for a special component of our project.
That special component being the Summer of Service (SOS) component. SOS is a mini AmeriCorps NCCC for boys and girls ages 14-17. It's about a month. Two days during the week through the month they do various service projects for the day, and we get the chance to be their team leaders so to speak. SOS is a component for the teams working with the Boys and Girls Club as their primary project because most of the SOS participants are members of the Club.
Contrary to what was stated in my last post, I'm not looking forward to this last project, at all. I'm not looking forward to being back with my permanent team. Don't get me wrong, they're all great people... individually. They truly are. But as a team... we suck hardcore. Oh well, it's only 9 weeks.
In other news, thinking optimistically (basically saying to myself over and over again what I pretttty much said in the previous post)... We'll be near a beach, it'll be summer, at least the SOS component gives a little break in the week to do something different with the teens in the program, and I guess working with the kids in the Boys and Girls Club will be rewarding, meaningful, and whatnot.
I know I'll make the most of it, I usually do make the most and best of things. I'm just ready to close this chapter of my life and move on to the next. I just want to skip to the end of the program to the road trip I'm going on before heading home. That's right, ROAD TRIP! (and it's a cross country road trip too). Also, you know another thing that makes it even more fantabulous? (Yes. It CAN get more fantabulous than it already is). We're ending up in Northern Virginia where I get to see a couple of my most favorite people in the world whom I haven't seen in AGES!
Only 72 more days till it's over. 72 days.
OK. Coming to you next time from Freeport, TX at the club for boys and girls.
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