So I am here in an amazing apartment in Hattiesburg MS, it is fantastic and almost freaky just how nice this apartment is, compared to everything and everywhere I have lived in since March this is like the Taj Mahal, its a very large 2 bedroom with 2 full bathrooms (giant bath tubs) the carpet ad furniture is really nice we have a balcony, the complex is new and gated with 2 pools a spa and a tennis court it ios so nice i love it. I do already though miss my team a lot. It will be a hard four [View Full Entry]

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So last time we left off I was just about to leave Missippi to go to transition. Well transition was a nice break because we had sweet rooms and big queen sized beds all to ourselves. It actually got somewhat boring because there was little to do. Well with out project we were suppose to be finishing building our housing and then move in and then get started on working on rebuilding houses. Well it's been 5 weeks and it may be ready to move in on friday. The project as a whole was a bit of a letdown. We spent [View Full Entry]

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I can't believe I only have one week left of my first project. In some ways it flew by but when I reflect back it seems like so much has happened in the past 6 weeks. This last week was definately a stressful one. With the ending of this project everyone just seems really ansty to get out of here. On Tuesday the new team from the Sacramento campus arrived here. It's funny to see how they are reacting to the living conditions and how they feel. I can relate so much to them but I know they will learn to [View Full Entry]

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Hello again from Mississippi! I can't believe that my first round project is already nearing the end. It has been rough at times but all and all has definately been worth it. Our housing did improve when they built an addition to our bunk house which let us have a kitchen area and a screened in porch with our nasty couch on it. The food still a lot of the time is rice and gumbo but at times it is really good, I don't know quite know if it has actually gotten better or if my standards have dropped lol. I [View Full Entry]

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So my first week in Waveland, MS is over and boy has it been a long week. Not that it was all too challenging but I just alreayd kinda feel like I have been here for a long time! The ride wasn't too bad at all... it was long but I managed to sleep a good portion of it. I also did get to drive for a couple hours which was quite a relaxing time although the van was pretty heavy and a bit scary to drive. The hotel we stayed at in Knoxville, TN was kinda scetchy our room was [View Full Entry]

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So tomorrow is the big day! Me and my team will be starting our drive down to Waveland, MS. We are going to have 2 looooong days because we are doing the whole 20 hours in just two days of travel. We do though get to stay in a hotel tomorrow night so I hope they have a pool! It defiantely will be stressful so I hope my team is able to handle it! Im just thankful for my awesome abilities to sleep in weird places. Today we are doing our briefing with the regional director. We have to do a [View Full Entry]

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Ok well its hard to add pictures on here but if you would like to see some pictures you can click on these links! http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2038&l=2427f&id=1045590041 http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2006&l=d1071&id=1045590041 Oh and a little about today... we had a service project at a ZOO in Wilmington DE, it was awesome we saw all sorts of animals including a Siberian Tiger! Anyways just wanted to share that! Oh and I drove the 15 passenger van with my team in it... it was exciting! But yah enjoy the pictures just copy and paste the link! [View Full Entry]

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Well hello there from Perry Point Maryland! I am sitting here in offically the most irritating computer lab I have ever been in. Although I'd like to have that be the reason I have not written that's not really the case. I have though been extremely busy and the lab is quite out of the way... So I arrived without any problems and was able to sleep on both plane rides. As soon as we arrived we were told either which house we lived in or what dorm room we were assigned to. I was put in a dorm which is [View Full Entry]

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With two weeks left before I leaved I finally received my travel itinerary. My plane leaves Sacramento a 6:00 AM on January 29th; I have a layover in Denver and then arrive in Baltimore around 4:45 PM. I was hoping to fly out on a red eye so that way I could get their sooner but this will just have to do. So far I have been trying to pack up my apartment as much as possible but with my busy work schedule and trying to see everyone before I leave I have been procrastinating quite a bit. I with the [View Full Entry]

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Well hello! My name is Victoria Felt. Just in case you don't know me I am 19 years old, living in Stockton, California in my own little studio apartment currently. I will though, be leaving January 28th and moving to Perry Point, Maryland to join the Americorps *NCCC program. If you want to know more just click this link ---> AmeriCorps *NCCC But in a nutshell... I will move up to Maryland and there I have training for about 4 weeks. At some point during training I will be put on a team of about 10 - 12 people (ages 18-24) [View Full Entry]

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