Chicago was a blast. Got to hang out with all my favorite cousins who hadn't gotten to see me since last year. Took lots of pictures, drank lots of wine, ate lots of food, and laughed a whole bunch. I was so glad to enjoy some cold weather before shipping off to the desert for 2 months. Although, if you ask me, there wasn't enough snow, I was thrilled it snowed all day Christmas Eve.
Now back to reality- back to AmeriLand and the Ameri way of life. Tomorrow is going to be a hectic day. We have all-corps PT, project cross training (where we get to sit and ask questions to the team who just left the project site we're headed to and then they get to ask us questions about the reject we just left that they're heading to), give a briefing on our Round 2 project to the NCCC staff, have a team dinner at the Mongolian BBQ with our step team (our TL's boyfriend is also a TL here on campus... we're like the Brady Bunch!). And in all that down time, we have to pack and make any last minute scrambles to Wal-Mart, Target or the BX to collect needed items. And load the van Tuesday night.
I don't know how often I'll be able to update the blog, if I can do it at all. The people I've talked to who have been to the project site said yes there is a wi-fi signal but it might as well not exist. So... we'll see how that goes.
I wish I had more time to tell you what I did over break but there's just so much to do before we leave! It's going to be a 10-12 hour drive south, starting at 4:30 am on Wednesday morning, packed like sardiens in a 15-passenger van. But we lucked out and we now have cargo support... which we're sharing with another team on the drive south! But at least all of our personal gear plus two 8-10 people tents, a 2 person tent, 3 ground tarps, a canopy tent, 12 extra sleeping bags, 7 3-inch foam sleeping pads, and 12 extra sweatshirts won't have to be crammed in the 15-p with us! YAY!
So just to give you an idea of where I am and where we're headed-
Can't wait to see the mountains and the stars and the coyotes! It's going to be hard work- 4 days a week, 10 hours a day of hard manual labor under the hot sun. But I think it will be fantastically different from anything I've ever experienced. So for now, goodbye interwebs! I shall miss you but will learn to be entertained in other ways. Got a few travel games for Christmas to take with us... Anyone got any good book recommendations I can pick up before Tuesday night?
Fare well, i hope the desert blizzards take you away, fill your eyes, ears and mouth full of sand!
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