Mountains, Places, and Square Dancing

So to start...

why have I never been square dancing before???

Last night we had an Appalachian culture night and a man and his wife played themed music for us as well as square dancing. 

SO MUCH FUN

Never in my life have I square danced and I am really sad that I this is truth. 

The man and woman who called out the moves and played the music was a married couple and to put it the best way possible, if I were to choose someone based solely on their looks to lead a square dance it would have been this couple.

I found out my staff and my position for the summer. It is going to rock!

I am the operations coordinator. And I know that this wasn’t the position I wanted however I am so stoked to be doing this.

The Opco (operations coordinator) orders and decides what foods to get and stuff like that. This is good because I can now order soy milk which my entire staff will be very grateful for.

My staff is really cool. Most staffs have three girls and one boy and that is exactly how my staff has turned out. Joleen is my fellow first year and she is a very excited person to be around. She may have more energy than me, but I am fully ready to defend my energy status. Penny Pope is my returner and she has a very heavy southern accent. She is very cool. And Micah is my center director (my boss) is a very chill person and reminds me of my first boss at Caribou.

Everyone keeps coming up to us and saying we are the cutest staff. It may be because we are stationed in the city of Sunbright in Morgan County Tennessee, or possibly because we are the coolest group. We are seriously like twenty minutes from being in the central time zone. We are also the western most county. I truly feel like this is a God thing because I am actually almost as close to home as I can be which will make family visits easy.

So far life has been really good here, there are a ton of things I am supposed to know about construction and it is definitely overwhelming but I already want to come back next year. I want to be a returner! I think the only thing that could make this summer better is having all my friends from home here with me learning these awesome things.

We leave next week for our counties and I cannot wait to actually get there. Our center has a private bathroom and is awesome!!!!

As far as spiritual fulfillment I was really nervous that my staff wouldn’t be as prayer/bible focused as I want to be, but the first thing out of my returner’s mouth was that she wanted to pray before every meeting. Then my CD (center director) said she really wanted to go outside and lay under the stars and pray before each meeting so that it would be not like a chore we have to get through. I couldn’t be more happy with my group.

I also got to play guitar tonight as well. This made me happy because it was really awesome.

Well sounds good, talk to y’all later and I will eventually do a video blog but I gots to go!

Peace out!!!

First Couple of Days

So to start, the video blogs are not happening yet. There is about twenty minutes a day of private time and that is used for showering. So I apologize and I know it sucks that you all don’t get to see my lovely face ; )

                I am learning so much about construction and am realizing that I really am not going to be doing any actual construction…. Who knew?

                Really what I am going to be doing is just advising the volunteers as they do the work. This is good, however it may limit my actual getting ripped ability.

                I guess I should really say that this first post is really going to be very all over the place. I am sitting right now trying to learn/play a card game and there are so many people around. So once again…

I apologize.

We find out the people that we are actually going to be spending the summer with tomorrow night. It is going to rock! We still have about ten days of training but next Sunday we will be leaving for our counties.

I want to give you all the basic layout for the day. So to do this in a conducive way I have decided to make a list. So here it goes

7:20 get up and go to devo’s

7:45 go to breakfast

                                Note: every day we have different chores and which may include but is not limited to cleaning the bathrooms, dining area, or doing the dishes. Dishes suck because it’s doing the dishes for over 100 people. But for the most part is like my new friend Victoria said, “Construction boot camp.”

                There are so many people here and I am doing my best to learn everyone’s names but you all know me and my ability to remember names is very limited. For example:

                I have asked the same girl what her name is and have told her each time that if I ask her again to punch me in the stomach. I KEEP FORGETTING!

So I am putting it here her name is Mary.

It’s kinda sad because the guy to girl ratio is so off that there will only be one guy in each staff group. I know what some of you are saying. Those are good odds ; )

However, I really like the dudes here. They are all really cool and I want to be on their staffs as well.

It’s late and I am ready for bed so I will post again in the next couple of days when there are more interesting things going on. Just know that I miss everyone and God is really doing awesome stuff here.