spent the past few days in jellystone park campground outside of st. louis, missouri. traveled into the city each day to participate in trainings, briefings, debriefings, etc. as a part of transition at the americorps st. louis office. this past week we've been able to decompress from the past four and a half months of traveling and working everywhere from new mexico to new york to illinois. we were able to meet up with teams that had been to deployed to oklahoma and teams we hadn't seen since mid-march because they were on the west coast while we have been on the east. during transition, we were able to escape into the city for an afternoon (spent it at the city museum, aka a large playground within a museum which I'm pretty sure served as some PT requirements as well...killing two birds with one stone...FEMA corps style). it was wonderful to spend a few days with people I haven't seen in months, hearing about their experiences and exchanging farmer's tan lines. I have no complaints about spending several nights in cabins in the middle of jellystone woods with yogi bear and fellow FEMA corps members roasting marshmallows and having water balloon fights (except for the extreme humidity, the complete front side sunburn I received the first day, being introduced to entirely new species of insects, and the fact that I may forever be paranoid about ticks burrowing into my skin) but other than those minor things....it was perfect.
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