new mexico: here we come!

packing our lives into little red duffels and sweeping the campus clean...a typical thursday night for the FEMA Corps members here at the pacific region campus. we've successfully completed FEMA basic training at our campus and will be leaving promptly at 6:45 tomorrow morning in a massive 15-passenger caravan south to new mexico. (once in new mexico) we will be learning more about our teams' specific FEMA roles (my team's role is Community Relations, which acts as "the boots on the ground" at a disaster site. we go into the community and talk with the people who live there to better understand their needs as well as the needs of the community and work to assist them in any way we can). as much as I'm looking forward to some quality van team bonding time, I'm even more excited about delving deeper into our FEMA training.