Almost half-way through Round 1!

So as the title says it, Americorps Team Leader year is almost half-way finished with Round 1! WOW!…talk about these days going rapid fast. It is hard to catch up! Anyways, we ended up having Labor Day off from working, giving us a nice 3-day weekend to relax and prepare ourselves to the work weeks to come. A 4-day work week was what was on River 3’s plate. It turned our team of 11 into a nice even number 12. Having a new member made it easier for us to divide into our groups of 2 when three groups were painting the curbs with white, water-based paint and then following behind them were three black spray painting groups with stencils. Man…we got this project and know it like the back of our hands!

Fasten your seatbelts for the next 2 week update on how the team had its first grocery shopping outing to more River 3 birthday celebrations to Round 1 and working with the Fire Department…

September 7th (Monday)
a nice, relaxing day off of work…thank you Labor Day! Haha…the funny thing is we were not applauding about taking off that day from working only 3 days with the Fire Department, but because trainings for me had been going on for the last 2 straight months…a nice get-away from Americorps to re-group

got the chance to climb out of the Ameri-bubble and find out what my sports teams were doing, what kind of presidential things have been going on, and especially got the chance to catch up with my friends and family

had made some time for our PT coordinator to come up with a workout routine for the whole squad.

overall, I also had the opportunity to begin updating my team’s hours and my own hours into the Americorps portal

September 8th (Tuesday)
woke up and touched basis with the sponsor the night before to find out what the game plan was going to be for the rest of the week

arrived at the Fire Central Station and received our neighborhood task for the day, talked to the Chief, and then got assigned our Fire Private who would be out driving around in a pickup with H20 and Gatorade keeping us hydrated

we were trying to obviously find residencies that had curbs and ALSO trying to stay away from the "shady" and "traffic-like" subdivisions

worked and pumped out about over 200 houses
finished the workday at 4:30 PM and checked in with the Chief to receive our next neighborhood map

September 9th (Wednesday) thru September 11th (Friday)

these days were similar to Tuesday with working on curbs and painting them in those groups but making sure that each group of 2 was different daily.

Once we got accustomed to doing the curbs, we began mass producing on an average of 250 hours per day


September 14th-18th (Monday-Friday)
Friday was Lan’s birthday and she got the chance to ride in a fire truck; got free pizza from the project sponsor who applied for the grant

Brittany’s last day was Wednesday

September 21st-25th (Monday-Friday)
Code Red calling all week; we made phone calls to businesses in the city of Vicksburg; in a room in City Hall for 7 hours of the day

Began working with the Child Abuse Program in Vicksburg as an ISP which means work days started earlier (8AM)

ISPs for the weekend: Jacob’s Ladder painting, Salvation Army sorting clothes and pricing, and doing Trail Clearing at the local cemetery and Vicksburg Military Park
O’Keefe Project might not happen because there is no working internet on campus
1 more full week with the Fire Department

(incomplete...more to come!)