Team assignments!

I got my first choice! I’m not sure exactly who my team members are going to be, but I know what team I’m on! First though, the retreat was wacky fun, full of all of the goofball antics I expected out of it. They broke us into “crazy” teams...

Getting ready to go on retreat

So we have settled pretty securely into training. It’s a little slow, but it is interesting to get to know all the different projects and filling out our preference sheets so that the staff knows where to place us. There are basically four choices of projects...

Adventure time! Boxes can wait.

I’m not really unpacked yet, although all of my stuff is in my room. I’m slowly taking it out of the mass of boxes that are stacked precariously in the center of my room but I’m finding it difficult to find time to sit down and get it all in order. There...

Dia de los Muertos decorations? It’s like being at home!

Well one thing is certain, City Year is definitely different. I knew that they prided themselves on their culture, it was one of the things that drew me to them in the first place, but I find that I didn’t grasp how much that culture permeated everything that...

Saying goodbye

Early this morning I drove my dad to the airport. It’s not that I’m not excited to be up here, or that the idea of living by myself away from my home is impossible to fathom (after all, I’ve done it before), but I couldn’t help but be hit by a...