Transitioning towards the end...

I seemed to have survived the second week at sly park. I was a cabin leader with Iman and two other moms (who were AWESOME). The girls were a lot of fun however, i found myself missing students from the week before. This is a lot like teaching for sure but with only a week with each there was no time to grow accustom to the differences of week 2. It rained a whole heck of a lot less (but I think it would have been impossible to rain more) and I was able to enjoy my hikes, sit with my feet in the creek and roast marshmallows!  After four grueling days, we piled back into Rhonda (the van) and begrudgingly headed home.  Why were we dragging our feet you may wonder...transition.

transition = every team in the region coming back to campus to brief, debrief and check in with staff.

Sure this sounds like a gleeful time full of reunited corps members and friends. However, for Gold 1 transition usually means hiding in our rooms avoiding most of the other corps. This is partially because the Gold unit was marooned in the gulf and missed transition the first time, partially because our beloved Gold 6 was on a non-stop spike and would not be here, and partially because Gold 1 is fortunate enough to like each other and very few others. :P 

We made it back to campus on friday and immediately dove into our rooms and hung out with each other. However, on Sunday most of the team + Andretta met up with one of the awesome mom's previously mentioned and went rafting all day! This is one of the best days in Kristina's Americorps history. All day we just lounged around on a raft and on a beach with our feets and sometimes whole bodies in the river and the cool river breeze in our hair. We had food, laughter and fun. However despite hourly applications of sunscreen there were a lot of lobsters on Gold 1 come monday morning. Also we seem to have discovered a rather odd and annoying sun rash. It was definitely worth it....

Transition passed rather smoothly. I of course had several people to avoid and while I didn't intend to avoid them at first withint 48 hours it was clear that there would be no civilized cordial small talk. I miss Gold 6 a ton! especially when i need some time away from the people I live with (rare but necessary). Today we had to work with weed warriors removing thistle... it was exactly like everyday of TreePeople so it was very tiring. Tomorrow we work at a carnival, weekend off and then to seattle!

I still can't believe its only 6ish weeks til the end...where has the time gone?