CTI is wrapping up. We had our second baseline this morning. I shaved a minute and a half off my run time! And i did twice as many pushups and 20 more situps. Hell yeah.
And now, in the last couple days of CTI, they're stuffing every day full of trainings. It feels like each day is busier than the last. My team has our project briefing in the morning, more trainings tomorrow afternoon, then that's it! Induction (we become official corps members, ready to be deployed at any time) and Thanksgiving!
I'm excited about going home. About eating all those great thanksgiving foods and participating in home traditions. I'm sad that Kristin and Laura aren't going to be there, but i'm glad that i get to see my family. And who knows? maybe i'll even start tackling the project of cleaning out my room? (don't get your hopes up too much, mom. you know how i procrastinate.)
Right now, the information i have about where i'll be living in Portland is that it's a 3 bedroom house. (5 girls sleeping in cots in a tiny bedroom? it's like a dream come true!) and it comes with no furniture. And yes, you read that right. we've been informed that we'll be sleeping in cots. We'll get furniture from the Habitat Reuse center within the first week that we're there, but we've been told that we start work tuesday morning (after driving the whole way on monday and arriving very late monday night). We're hoping that this schedule will change in our favor. It's overwhelming to think we might start work before we can even get a cot to sleep on?
Yesterday was diversity training. It was a lot of things i've heard before, of course. But i thought that the women who lead it (both former NCCC) did a great job with it. It was hard...ok, impossible to stay mentally and emotionally engaged in the training for the full 8 hours. but i feel like i got a lot out of it, and i hope that other people on my team did as well.
Towards the end, they talked about volunteering as charity or solidarity, and shared with us a quote that i really liked:
"I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charidy is vertical, so it's humiliating. It goes form the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the others and learns from the others. I have a lot to learn from other people." -Eduardo Galeano
Lots of love to everyone. And comment! I want to know who's reading!
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