Green 5!

Sunday and Monday were full of anticipation and excitement! On Sunday night we found out our units and Monday night we were told our teams. We said bye to our pods and it was really emotional for most of us. We've been living, eating, and working with the same 12 people for almost 2 weeks and it's hard to realize that we won't be seeing each other anymore from now on. The corps is divided into four units (Silver, Gold, Blue and Green). We learned our unit cheer and played some ice breaker games. I was really excited that a few of my good friends were in my unit since until we go on our first spike we'll be participating in programming with our units. We found out then that we had the day off on Monday. It takes some getting used to realizing that every day is spontaneous and we don't find out what we're doing until the day before.

The whole corps had a pizza party Monday night and then it was time for the teams to be revealed. We broke up into our units and were each given an envelope with our name on it. Inside the envelope was a puzzle piece and we had to run around finding the other people to complete the puzzle. Once we found our other team members, we went on a scavenger hunt to find out who our team leader is. As a team we had to drink a gallon of apple juice as fast as we could and then head over to the nearby hotel. At the bottom of the pool was a clue and one team member volunteered to dive to the bottom to get the clue.

There was so much anticipation during this whole process. It was really strange standing in a circle with the 10 other people that I would be living with for the next 10 months. I got really lucky, my team leader is awesome. As you can tell from the scavenger hunt he made us go on, he has a great sense of humor and I'm excited to get to know him better. We have a smaller team, there are 9 of us, 3 guys, 6 girls, not including our team leader. I'm surprised that only 3 people are younger than me. I'm the only one from California and the south is well represented (Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Alabama).

The last two days have been diversity training and other ice breakers to get to know our team members better. I'm really looking forward to this weekend. We're going to Camp Mendocino, a Boys and Girls Club Camp in the redwoods from Saturday to Tuesday. It's supposed to be in the 30s at night and we're sleeping in open air cabins, but I'm excited for the possibility of snow.

I know I've been horrible at returning phone calls lately, but that doesn't mean I don't want to talk to you!

alex :)