For those of you who still don't understand what AmeriCorps NCCC is or what I am doing...
There are 3 branches of AmeriCorps that I am eligible for - VISTA, NCCC, and State and National. I am in the National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC - pronounced N-triple C). This is a team based, residential program for 18-24 year-olds. My region is the Southwest region with consists of Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, Kansas, Arkansas, Arizona, Missouri, Oklahoma.
We will go on 4 service projects throughout the 10 months - lasting about 2 months each. These will be in areas such as, environmental conservation, disaster response and relief, youth development, building homes, and other service projects similar to that. I also have to complete 80 hours of service during the 10 months that is independent from my project. This can be anything volunteer related, except religious organizations or anything with a political affiliation.
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Wednesday, Oct. 14th - I landed in Denver International Airport at around 11a. Totally surreal to see an AmeriCorps Rep and a Dateline cameraman waiting right outside the gate!
**Side Note - Dateline is doing a special on AmeriCorps and they will be filming one team throughout the year, 20% chance it will be my team**
Everything was super organized and we got to campus at about 3p. We are staying at Colorado Heights University, about 7 miles outside of Downtown Denver. Campus -->
We are split into 4 units - Earth, Fire, Sun, and Water. I am in Water!! How fitting. :) This just means that I spend almost all of my time in my unit. There are about 55 people in the unit, which is further broken down into 5 teams of 11. We do not get our permanent teams until November 5th because they like to switch it around and see who works well together and our varying strengths and weaknesses. It is neat that they do that, but I would really like to just have my team and start learning how to work with them...
We have 4 weeks of training and then start our 1st round of projects!!
When we are on SPIKE (alternate living away from camping - could range from a hotel to camping to cots in a gym), I am not sure how often I will be able to update my blog, but I will definitely try to keep everyone updated on all of my wonderful adventures!
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