so word has finally come down about our projects and guess what i am doing first round this year.....TAXES in DELAWARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh yea baby - good old eagle 3 is local this first round and helping a Baptist organization with tax preparations in wilmington,de. regardless - it should be ok. initially i wasn't real excited but the whole idea is ( Read more... )

so the states I haven't been to are in great little clumps throughout the US. how fun. here's the map....


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Sunday morning and I am sitting in B15 trying to get my act together before another week begins.....what the hell is wrong with me!!??!! in the whole of last year i don't think i ever really realized how much WORK the TLs have to do. So much of it is after hours, typing things up, finding people to ask crazy questions that your CMs have come up ( Read more... )

so every day seems to be a new adventure around here. all week it was one thing after another ( Read more... )

so the first 5 days of the next 10 months are over. got the team on thursday and are convinced that they are gonna be a good time. nothing is better than that - i am 95% confident that they are gonna be super hard workers and very motivated - 8 of 9 CMs on my team are trying out to be firefighters. there's only gonna be 2 - possibly 3 - of them ( Read more... )

Today was the big day - team assignments. we went through the whole song and dance today of officially assigning teams. I was team kit kat out in the middle of the circle to get the kiddies ( Read more... )

Less than 12 hours until the fors CMs start rolling onto the Point. Part of me is super nervous and the other part knows how terrified these kiddies are and is not worried at all about showing them the ropes. the only problem is that it is supposed to snow here 6-8 inches overnight. what hell that will cause for travelling into Maryland. i can't ( Read more... )

hey all- sorry i am a bit wasted. excuse the misspelled words. it is the last weekend before all of the CMs come on MOnday and all of the TLs are doing their damndest to have a good trime before they come. aka - everyone is drunk tonight ( Read more... )

Well - we are at T minus 3 days and counting (including Today!) until the CMs arrive here on the Point. This morning is the staff/TL meeting in the war room over how Monday is gonna work and establish which poor souls are gonna have to be up and at it to run the 6am shuttle on Monday morning. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that its not me ( Read more... )

YEAH NEW TOYS!!!!

I love how americorps gives you random toys. today we got issued our vans. I got a white Dodge - i know i know - you all know how i feel about white cars - I hate them. So my new baby is a huge white 15 passenger van. tomorrows excitement is that we are getting issued our cell phones. Whoo Hooo!

Anyways - gotta go. talk more