tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32351863981069618822011-07-28T16:41:06.280-04:00Back by popular demand - through this all-new weekly blog, experience life in AmeriCorps NCCC as we wonder where the Oneders will wander next! AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps) is a full-time, team-based residential program for men and women age 18–24. The mission of AmeriCorps NCCC is to strengthen communities and develop leaders through direct, team-based national and community service as members complete service projects throughout the region they are assigned.CNCS Webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06540855409525640919noreply@blogger.comBlogger591100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3235186398106961882.post-75799352732428666952008-11-18T22:43:00.003-05:002008-12-08T22:57:50.627-05:00

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When I came to AmeriCorps NCCC I was unsure as to what I wanted to do with my life. Now, with a mere week left in AmreriCorps I am still plagued with this same uncertainty. My mind is constantly buzzing with the same questions – What do I want to go to grad school for? Where do I want to go? Do I even want to go to grad school?However, I accept this uncertainty because the last ten months in

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We're back in Denver now. It's been cool, crisp and sunny. The mountains are beautiful. I missed fall. It never really felt like autumn in Louisiana. It was always too warm. But here the leaves are off the trees, there's cider and pumpkin pie in the grocerie store and the weather is perfect! We went hiking up into the foothills of the Rockies yesterday. It was gorgous.As great as it is to be back

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Here at The St. Bernard Project everyday is exciting. Everyday I have no idea who will be showing up to volunteer at the house I am supervising. On Monday it was a group from Brooklyn, Tuesday it was a group of genetic researchers from Tulane University, on Wednesday it was a senior class from a private girls high school near by, on Thursday it was a group from Boston, and Friday it was a bus

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The team is currently getting ready to go out together for Halloween. Kate is dressing as a yellow footed rock walby, Stacy is going as a dinosaur, Katie as Zorro, Sam as Indiana Jones, Paige as a princess, Andy as an old man, Mallory as a zebra, and I am going as a tomb raider.Camp Hope is a buzz with everyone getting dressed. Our dinner crew here dressed up for dinner and got a few laughs. This

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Last week I finished dry walling my house! Hooray! My volunteers finished in one week which is pretty stellar.This week I’ve been working with Amanda and Katie mudding their houses. I am becoming an excellent mudder.I’m really excited about going back to Denver to see everyone again and to say goodbye. We'll be graduating from the program on November 19. I’ve loved my AmeriCorps experience but I

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The St. Bernard Project has been a really great experience so far and the whole team has been enjoying it. My role with this project is the Warehouse Assistant Manger position. I keep the warehouse looking clean and organized so I know where everything goes. I also stock the shelves when new supplies comes in, help volunteers along with site supervisors find the tools they are looking for, and

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As my teammates have mentioned in previous entries, we are reaching the end of our service in AmeriCorps. I can't even begin to express the emotions that I am facing regarding this wrap up. We are currently about three weeks into our fourth (and final) project, the St. Bernard Project...and I am hooked. I can't seem to get enough of working with volunteers and contributing to the rebuilding of

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Our days with AmeriCorps are almost over! It's about that time that nobody can call home anymore without parents asking "So when are you gonna get a real job?" Well, most nights we have got teammates browsing colleges, filling out job applications, and studying for the GREs. I'm sure that in our own ways of measuring success, we'll all be extremely successful after AmeriCorps.We are all just

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Fourth Round. I continue to ask myself where the time has gone…. Wasn’t it just yesterday that we were in the mountains of Tennessee building trails or hammering away at rotted wood in the upper Ninth Ward? First, second, third, and fourth round… that’s what this year has become; defined into quarters, breaks, and natural disasters. In just one month, we’ve had a week long break, witnessed two

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We had our orientation today. We saw some of the houses we'll be working on, we met the people that we'll be working with and we learned the story behind the St. Bernard Project. We also met one of the homeowners. It's pretty amazing. The people here are full of love and hope. They work hard and they have done amazing things.St. Bernard Project was started by a couple from Boston, Zach and Liz.

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Friday morning we were all expecting a pretty quiet day. We were all sitting around watching a movie when all of a sudden one of the other volunteers here at Camp Hope flew into the room and asked us who wanted to throw sand bags. We were like "Why? What's going on?" He told us the levees were getting over topped by the storm surge from Hurricane Ike and they needed help. We had 5 minutes to get

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My shuffle team was Earth 2 - even though this project ended a few weeks ago, I wanted to share a little about my experiences. During my shuffle round I was sent on disaster to the town of Oakville, Iowa. Oakville is a little town that is known to make some of the best hog feed in the country. It was built on a flood plain right off of the Iowa River. The levee broke due to the increase of water

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It's been an interesting week. We all got back from our week of vacation on Monday rested and eager to get back to work. Unfortunately, hurricanes have a way of messing up plans. Hurricane Gustav was hitting Louisiana the day I got back to Denver. We were all here holding our breath hopping that it wouldn't be another Katrina. Thankfully New Orleans was mostly spared. Still we couldn't go back

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It was a pretty typical transition week. We had a debrief and brief. We had a tool check in and room inspections. Friday however was exciting. Instead of our usual transition week activities we went to the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. We woke up at the crack of dawn and drove up into the foothills of the rockies. It's a beautiful sprawling campus dotted with pine trees. We spent the

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Third round, which we just finished, was shuffle round. This means we went on spike with a new team and a new team leader. Amanda, Stacy, Maria and I were shuffled to Earth 3. It was really fun, so I wanted to share a little about our experiences.We had a great project. We worked with Habitat for Humanity in Lafayette, LA. Right away they had us doing construction. We spent the first few weeks

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On Thursday morning the team left our lowernine.org house to head back to Denver. We stayed in Terrell, TX our first night and ate dinner at Applebees. It was great. We left the following morning at 8am for Salina, Kansas. Tonight we’re staying at a Days Inn. For dinner tonight we were going to treat ourselves to Red Lobster, because we thought we had enough money with our AmeriCorps budget (we

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We are currently preparing to depart from New Orleans and head back to Denver. The shuffle round is over and we all are going to return to our original teams. I enjoyed working with this wonderful group of people. As we pack our things and clean our places we get to reflect on what we have done here and the people we have met. Though our team’s impact is only a small part of the overall effort

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So we're just getting through our third week of work with lowernine and the team is split up between worksites. About 3-4 of us work with kids at a summer camp and the rest of us are at various houses fixing floors, replacing studs and whatnot. One of the projects that I've really enjoyed was building a shed. We finished one the first week, and the second week we started a brand new one. And with

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Before I joined AmeriCorps NCCC, I never would have described two long days of caulking, painting and drywalling in 90 degree weather as the perfect weekend. But last weekend's visit to Cameron Parish, Louisiana proved that there is nothing I would have enjoyed more. I got the chance to see my friends from Earth 3 and visit some of the amazing people we met during our second round project.Last

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Our second spike in New Orleans has proven to be a totally unique experience. I have been having a great time getting to know the new members of the team. I have found myself going out more than ever before - Café du Monde, exploring the French Quarter, and going to the movies. Our quick team bonding is a positive side effect of our cramped housing, as everyone on our team takes any opportunity

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Ever since I was a child, I was constantly overwhelmed with anxiety over being around children who were much younger than me. This anxiety has only grown with me as I've gotten older. Because of this, I have done the best I can to deliberately avoid interaction with young children as much as possible, and I've done a pretty good job at doing so...that is until nearly three weeks ago.My AmeriCorps

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Spike travel was pretty chill. We had a three-day trek out to New Orleans that took us through New Mexico and Texas. The first two hours were kind of rough, what with having to say good-bye to my Earth Three teammates, but once I got out of the ATD (assistant to the driver) seat and realized I was going to have an entire bench in the van to myself, I got over it a little bit. We spent the night

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Kayla and I are new to the blog... and the camera-Keegan

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Welcome to Shuffle round, when all the teams get switched around just to spice things up a bit. There are people who are really nervous about shuffle round (who are these people on my team now?!) and people who are really excited about it (more good friends to make!). I, for one, am a little of both. Although it is the shortest round, third round will present new team dynamics and more

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Hectic.... just the word to describe our last couple days in New Orleans. The team is actually really sad to be leaving already; New Orleans has definitely left a mark in all our hearts -- from the generous people we've met to the street festivals downtown, there is nothing we won't miss about the Big Easy. This week we visited the New Orleans aquarium (free for AmeriCorps members!) and did some

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Today was awesome! We were demolishing a brick wall. We went to the office in the morning and our sponsor was showing one of the construction managers how to use a masonry saw. This was no ordinary saw. It was twice the size of a chainsaw and had a blade as big as a pizza pie. We drove to a house in the St Bernard parish. One of the exterior walls of the house was damaged by the storm. We took

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This week the team was divided into three groups and sent to different work sites. We were all a little nervous about being split up for the whole week but it turned out to be just fine. It gave us something new to talk about since we were all doing different projects such as painting, tiling, and installing appliances. Also, we are going to be shuffled with other teams next round (something the

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AmeriCorps NCCC has given me many opportunities to help improve communities in the US, and my visit to New Orleans this weekend was no different. Well, it was a little different. Instead of working with elementary students in Denver or helping to renovate homes in Lake Charles, we worked on improving the local economy using tourism. But don't be fooled – we were no ordinary tourists. We were

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On Tuesday night our team was invited to a crawfish boil at the home of one of our sponsors. The Project Homecoming staff usually get together to socialize with one another on Tuesdays after work. We arrived fashionabley late which was only because we got lost for about 45 minutes. One of our many adventures in the van. However, the timing worked out perfectly because when we arrived Mark was

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A Wild Week -I miss my free time. It seems like in AmeriCorps there isn't much of it. Our days are packed. We work all day. When we get home we either have to do physical training or our weekly progress report. I'm always either helping with dinner or helping clean up. By the time I eat and shower and call my girlfriend the day is over and before I have time to breathe I'm doing it again. This

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Monday was the first day actually working on the house that we are going to be rebuilding for the next six weeks. This week we took the first steps of rebuilding by removing linoleum from the floor, taking out damaged studs and sections of the floor and repairing them, and putting in new doors. To me, houses have always been somewhat of a mystery. I look at them and get overwhelmed by thinking of

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This week I joined the Earth Oneders and so far so good. I am really excited to be on the team because I’ve never done construction work before and this round we'll be working on a house destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. On Monday, we departed Denver and traveled through Texas, stopping in Amarillo on the first night and in Tyler the second night. The third day we finally arrived in New Orleans to

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They tell us that transition week is not supposed to be vacation. We're on the job during transition week and we need to put in the hours. Unfortunately, I think it's been longer than anyone expected. There's been a lot of drama and bad news this week. We were all hoping to have a nice relaxing week. We wanted to recharge our batteries. Instead, many of us are feeling emotionally drained. The

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The first day on the road was a nice one. I got to get in some reading that i had been neglecting for awhile as we were being serenaded by artists such as The Beatles, Jack Johnson, Damien Rice, other assorted artists. We arrived in St. Louis around 5:00 and meet up with a team from another unit. Later we went out to eat at a local oriental cuisine restaurant. Our team leader left early in the

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Today we fixed up the school nice and pretty for our departure. After our work was done we chillaxed in the sun. We took hours worth of pictures to remember our good times on spike. This past Sunday, we also took pictures in front of the school. Our favorite picture is of the team jumping. We weren’t in full uniform because it was a Sunday, but nonetheless we thought it would be a good picture to

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This is our second week living in the Stony Fork School -- a school in the backcountry of Tennesee that is no longer in use. This week we are building bridges on the trail at Lick Creek. Building bridges is fun. It includes moving lots of extremely heavy, awkward-sized logs over the creek even when it doesn’t seem possible. That is what AmeriCorps does -- makes the impossible seem possible…hahaha

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After a wonderful two-week stay in our cozy house at Cove Lake, our team packed up our belongings and moved to a beautiful campground in Frozen Head State Park a couple of weeks ago. This was exciting for two reasons, one being that those who have camped before greatly enjoyed what this particular site offered. The second reason being that those who have never camped before were able to get a

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We had Easter break! YAY! Amanda, Mallory & Katie all went home for a few days and were all very happy that they did. We’re definitely all missing everyone back home! Sam relaxed at Cove Lake for Easter, but now he’s psyched to see his girlfriend this weekend! The rest of us drove down to New Orleans to hang out with people from other teams and check out the city. It was definitely a lot of fun &

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As service learning is required every week, this week the team went to the Campbell County Historical Museum and Library. "Service learning" is a method for us to bring greater meaning to our projects by learning about the communities we serve and the issues that our projects address. This service learning opportunity was recommended to us by our sponsor, so we decided to spend a rainy day

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It was our team leader Maria's birthday on the 11th and we celebrated by surprising her with a little party. We got her cheesecake which is her favorite along with a few of her favorite flowers: red roses. It was an intimate gathering of our team with balloons and banners. The best part was the look on her face when she walked in the door and we all jump out yelling, surprising her. Fun was had

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Last night there was a hoedown going down in the state of Tennessee and we were invited. To sum very briefly, a hoedown is the art of square dancing. Wow, that really was a quick summary. When we showed up we were encountered by two other schools who were itching for a good AmeriCorps hoedown. There was also a local band playing there called Boogertown and boy did they play us a good Tennessee

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We got to Tennessee two days ago. We started working on the trail yesterday. The weather was great. It was sunny and warm. The forest is very pretty and there is a sparking stream that crosses the trail. We started off the day by learning about the tools. They all have cool names. There’s the McCloud, the mattock, the rouge hoe, the Pulaski, and the fire rake. We also learned about duff. It’s the

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We left campus on Monday morning around 10am. The first day we drove through Colorado all the way to Salina, Kansas. On Tuesday we drove to St. Louis, Missouri and the travel was really easy until we were about 20 miles away from our hotel. St. Louis had received 10 inches of snow which is very unusual for the area. We sat in traffic for 3.5 hours. Fortunately, with so many of us in the van, we

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It was really hard to say goodbye to my family and friends at home, but by the first night on campus in Denver I knew that these people I was meeting were going to make a great family for me for the next 10 months.Parts of CTI (Corps Training Institute) were a little grueling for all of us. I thought that I had finally escaped college and classes, just to find myself in a hot and crowded room

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Greetings and welcome to 11 months of Earth One adventures! We are based out of the AmeriCorps NCCC Central Region Campus in Denver. Our team consists of 12 members from all over the United States, including (but not limited to) California, North Carolina, Connecticut, New York, Louisiana, and New Hampshire. Our ages range from 18-25 and our personalities are just as diverse. Although we all come

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KatieI am 21 and am from San Francisco, California. I just graduated from UC Berkeley this past December with a BS in Integrative Biology. Being in the public education system all my life, America has given me a great deal, and AmeriCorps NCCC stood out to me as the perfect way to give back a little bit. I am so excited to be in the position to be able to lend a hand where it is asked for, and to

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SamI graduated from State University of New York-Plattsburgh in 2007 with a BS in Computer Science. I also studied abroad for a semester in Chester, England. I enjoy ultimate Frisbee, acting, and playing games. I’m very excited about trail building and living outdoors in Tennessee. After AmeriCorps NCCC, I plan to go to grad school in New York.MalloryI’m a 23-year-old native Floridian. I plan to

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StacyI’m from New Hampshire, and I graduated in 2007 from Plymouth State University with a BS in Developmental Psychology. I’ve wanted to join NCCC for a long time, and I’m excited to finally be here. I’m excited to travel and do some direct service for others. I also enjoy hiking, camping, skiing, kayaking, aerobics, and reading. I’m kind of in love with Colorado, and I hope to stay out there

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