One More Week!

Well....So sorry it's taken so long to post again!  This week has been soooo busy we haven't had time to come to starbucks!!! i swear i am wasting so much money here on chai tea lattes everytime I come!  So we found out our housing situation for Wichita Falls (next project), we will have a house with 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms, out team leader has her own room so between 5 guys and 5 girls we have to split into 3 bedrooms...o and even better, there aren't any beds....so we have to bring cots or sleeping pads so I better enjoy my bed at home while I got it!!! 
So we work Monday and Tuesday and then leave for Denver Wednesday.  We stop in Salina, Kansas on Wednesday night and finish up the trip to Denver on Thursday.  We have to "work" on Friday (have no idea what we're doing) and then leaving Saturday to come home!!  I don't leave Denver till 4pm and get into Logan at 10pm and my beautiful mother is ever so kindly driving down to pick me up!!
I don't know if I mentioned it before, but I am SOOOO excited to get my very first real christmas tree when I get back!! I'm going to drag it from Millcreek to my house and decorate it all pretty and have Matilda and Indy climb all over it and eat it.  But that's ok, it'll only be up for about a week! 
When I get back I get to go see Narnia which came out today and I am SOOOO excited for that as well.  And I can't wait to just lay on my couch doing NOTHING with NO ONE around me.  I like these people and all but I can't seem to find too much personal time which I greatly appreciate.
The past couple days we did community service painting a huge room after working a 9 hour day and I have pretty bad blisters like the ones I used to get on the monkey bars, I'm noticing them now from typing. ANYWAY ummmmmm tomorrow I get to go play with puppies (dogs really, I just call all dogs puppies) for community service, someone is doing pet pictures with santa and they need help wrangling the pups and that's what I get to do!! 
Let's see, this weekend we are going to another basketball game (UALR vs. Ole Miss) and hopefully make it to the Clinton Library and possibly go for a hike in 30 degree weather! Apparently this weather is cold for Arkansas but I think it's just helping me prepare to come home to even colder! 

Here are some pictures of Little Rock I promised from....last weekend? or the weekend before? I'm losing track of time...

Walking down President Clinton Ave.

Me pulling some sweet moves ice skating. Beautiful.

River Market

River Market

Me on the bridge with downtown Little Rock in the background

View of Little Rock from the bridge

Ok, so starbucks is about to close and I'm going to pass out from exhaustion.  Don't know if I'll post again before coming home but I'll be home December 19-January 2! yay! so excited! love you byee

We know what we're doing next project!

Hello!!!! So first things first, we know what we're doing for our next project when we return from Christmas break.  Our team will be going to Wichita, TX which is in nothern Texas on the Oklahoma border, and....we will....be doing taxes...yes I said my community service with AmeriCorps for 6-8 weeks will be doing TAXES! while others are out building houses and building trails...we will be sitting inside (once again inside may I add) and do taxes.  Ok, yes I am a person who enjoys computer junk and math, but it wasn't what I was looking to do when I came into this program, ya know?  But I will of course make the best of it.  So to find out who gets what project there is a lottery, there are 28 teams, and we got number....28...so we got everyones leftover choice and had no option whatsoever in what we are doing. 

BUT anyway, I've had a good week so far, each week seems to get easier because I get more comfortable with the hospital atmosphere and going into patients rooms.  I had the best thing happen, I was getting ready to go do my last shift 3-5 in the rehab unit when my supervisor in the infant toddler unit asked me "how would you like to hold a 6 week old baby??"  A mother had to leave to go pick her mother up and someone needed to stay with the baby AND I GOT TO! she was a gorgeous little thing that slept the whole time and it made me so happy!!  I got some quiet time and got to hang out with a sweetie by myself so it was a nice relaxing afternoon!!  And I'm making progress in the patients recognizing me and getting excited to see me and that feels awesome!!  For our individual service hours we helped with what they call the Festival of Trees where they decorate trees really pretty and have a silent auction and sell a bunch of things including the trees and that was fun to see all the trees.  This weekend we are helping with some thing where people can take their pictures with a dog? or santa? I don't know, and then we're also helping with a parade that day to get a bunch of hours!  Then I think Sunday we will go hiking at Pinnacle Mountain here in Arkansas.

I'm a dummy and didn't upload my pictures yet but on Sunday we went ice skating downtown and went walking across a bridge and I got some sweet pictures.  I promise to add them as soon as I remember to upload them!!!

17 days!!! I can't wait!!!! hope all is well, I am doing great and enjoying being here, but of course there are little tweaks here and there that are driving me crazy but that's because I'm such a weirdo and let things get to me, but I am trying my hardest to not let that happen!  Love to all!