I know I've been slacking on updating this, but since I never sleep for more than 5 or 6 hours each night, I feel like I've done a lot so far. Friday night I went grocery shopping with 3 others from my pod. It was hilarious buying a week's worth of groceries for 26 people on a budget of $5 a day per person. Almost all of the pods had a few members at the grocery store that night and it was so easy to spot other AmeriCorps members. I mean, how often do you purchase $600 worth of groceries?




Here's a picture of some members of my team in the grocery store. This is only a few of our grocery carts, I think we had 5.





Saturday we did our first service project at an abandoned orchard. We harvested 4,000 apples and plums for the Sacramento Food Bank. Any of the apples that the smallest bruise or cut were thrown away and it was really sad to realize that at least half of t



he apples we collected were discarded. Of course I brought home a whole bag of fruit, so I was happy! This project was great since we all had the opportunity to bond with the other members of our pod. Collecting apples all day in the sun is really tiring, but it was great to actually get out and do something meaningful!

Sunday we had the day off so I went with 12 friends to downtown Sacramento. We spent about 8 hours riding the buses and light rail and managed to get on the wrong light rail or going in the wrong direction 3 times (there are only 4 options). Needless to say we spent the majority of the day wandering around, but I was enjoying it.

The last few days have been nothing but training in CPR, First Aid and Disaster Relief. The classes are long and mostly boring, but sitting with your friends makes it tolerable. Last night we were given our jumpsuits. How awesome do we look?














This morning we had the physical training baseline test at 530am. We had to run 1.5 miles and do as many sit ups in 2 minutes as we could. I was impressed with the number of sit ups I did, but I have no doubt I will improve my running since we have PT 4 days a week.

I'm off to make dinner right now, I promise I'll update again soon!