Second Day of Driving, All Day Through TX

I am sitting in my hotel room in Tyler, TX that I am sharing with three other girls on my team. We have been driving for the last two days. We left Denver yesterday around 8:30 or so and drove until about 7pm. We stopped in Amarillo, TX and ate a great local Mexican restaurant. Today we drove through more of TX. The landscape didn't change all that much through out the day. Tomorrow we are set to arrive in New Orleans, LA around 3pm, so another day of driving. The weather here is the polar opposite of Denver. It is warm and sticky here and will most likely be that way in LA too. It has been interesting driving in a van with 11 other people, but at least we have a 15 passenger van to use.

On Monday of this past week my team and I got ready to have our project briefing with Alann our team leader. That night I went to the AmeriCorps talent show. It was a blast! There are many different talents here: dancing, singing, stand-up comedy, and more. Tuesday my team had our project briefing and had tool check out. We checked out some dishes, hard, hats, and glasses. I have already said what I did on Wednesday. Friday were our inductions into AmeriCorps NCCC. We had to wear our dress uniforms for the second time that week. The ceremony took place in the large auditorium on campus. There were speeches by a past member from Class 1 and 2, the national acting director, the Denver director, a CM and a TL preformed a poem, which was very moving. One of the staffers had created a slide show of our first month on campus. The photos were very funny and made us all laugh. We took a Corps photo in our Dress BDU's that I hope we will get a copy of it. In the afternoon, I had to rush to finish packing, which was much harder than I thought it would be. I will have to take a photo of the two bags I brought with me so you can see how I stuffed them full.