After getting back from our two week break, happening over Thanksgiving, we had a week for transition as we prepared for our second projects. Most of us arrived back on Sunday, however many had to deal with flight delays due to the weather on the east coast. An important thing to consider if you need transportation from the place you are arriving at (airport, train station, ect) to your campus, shuttles may be grounded due to bad weather if the campus feels that the roads are hazardous to drive on. Luckily for me, I was able to get back to the campus and our campus ended up asking Corp Members to help drive some of the evening shuttles to pick more people up at the airport, however all shuttles after 7 were canceled and some people had to wait in the airport til the next morning when shuttles could get back out to pick them up.
Transition Week:
Transition week for us, which went from the Monday after we got back until Friday started off slowly on Monday with most of the day off until more people arrived, then we had a short corp meeting before breaking for dinner and calling it a night.
Over the next few days, we would have some meetings, a couple hour long trainings, a snow day including possibly one of the best PTs, involving a team wide snowball fight then the building of a massive snow fort. Outside of that, there was a considerable amount of sitting around and chatting while each days worth of training/activities were being figured out. It was nice to know where we were being sent for our second round so that we could pack accordingly as we came back from break.
It was nice that we were able to eventually get AmeriCorp Winter Parkas (Winter Jackets), which they ran out of and some people almost didn't get them, but I was able to bring the Parka with me and left my bigger jacket from home on campus saving some room in the van with the stuff that our team couldn't fit in our red bags or day packs.
All in all, the transition week went fairly well regardless of the time we spent waiting to see if we would have anything else we needed to be in uniform for on a few of the days. It was nice to be able to see the whole Corp again and visit in the down times as not all the teams will have the third and last transition at the same time, so it was most likely the last time the whole corp will be in the same place until the end of our term of service.
More to come in the next few days. Stay tuned.
