this past weekend was a long one, since we enjoy celebrating federal holidays here at FEMA Corps, and was filled with a day in sacramento exploring the capitol, a relaxing sunday reading in a park nearby while some other members from my pod worked out the soreness in their muscles from PT with some laps around the park, and a long uncharted hike in old salmon falls in Folsom (we arrived and were greeted by a large half empty lake--or half full?--and a vast dried up landscape which didn't give us many hiking trails to go off of, hence the "uncharted" adventure). nevertheless, it was a day in the sun with 70 other FEMA Corps members and I thoroughly enjoyed every moment.
today we return to the ever exciting orientation/training schedule of CTI. we just came back from an extensive seminar on camping from which we learned everything you'd ever want to know about camping while on spike ("spike" is the term we give to being out on a project and away from campus. it originated from before NCCC's time when members would camp while out in the field and would need to put spikes in their tents to hold them down). there's a chance we would camp either while being out on spike or en route to spike, so we've just acquired knowledge about what to do with a tent and our not-so-waterproof khakis in case of any type of weather. ever.
also today, we will be split up into our FEMA specific teams which we will be with for the rest of the nine months. (as excited as I am to finally know my permanent team, I will greatly miss my pod 17 mates who I've gotten to know and love over the past six days, despite requests from the TLs (team leaders) to not grow attached....also I am not exactly looking forward to scarfing down the remainders of my pod's overly stocked kitchen because we bought too much food for the short time we were going to be together...this may just be the largest and most diverse lunch I will ever eat.
to be continued...
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