lots of excitement.

This week has been fun & exciting! We've been in lots of final trainings and been eating a lot of bag lunches though not for much longer!... i'm not too sad about that part : ]
on monday we had unit time, which is supposed to be bonding/learning with your unit (about 60 of us) we went to the Nature and Science Museum. It was so sweet. there were cool exhibits about animals/space/gems/the human body and other sciencey things. i felt like a little kid in a candy shop. i kept getting excited about all of the cool things. i felt like i could be in there for hours.
there was an awesome human body exhibit that involved you getting a card in the beginning, and you would insert the card and be tested on different things. At the end you got a print off at your health etc. There was this cool "control your brain waves" game that you see in this picture.
you tried to move a metal ball across to your oponents side by using your brain. i guess it's all about relaxing, and i failed miserably, ha ha. there was also a- see what you look like at age 70... i chose to not get a picture of that, because it freaked me out.... because i looked so good ; ] ...yeah that's it!

the next place we went on our day was Boulder, CO. This is a neat college town. These girls Liz, me, Jessie, and Tana went exploring for the time we were there. We wandered about, saw some really weird/cool stores and got drawn in by the candy store : ]
This lady we ran into on the way back who took this picture for us taught us a universal handshake. apparently it's all the rage across the world. ask me when i come back and i'll teach you!



I love Denver for how random the weather is. This picture shows how crazy it can get. There was still snow on the ground from the huge snow storm we got 2 days prior, but in this picture it shows most of it melted and we were comfortably in shorts and t-shirts building snowmen.

So... exciting news... We found out our permanent teams last night!!! We had a day long class on diversity which was good but very long because we were all filled with anticipation. Our unit had a giant scavenger hunt to find where our team leader/team was. It was fun because a group of us would be walking together somewhere and wondering if this was our team, and then we would end up going separate ways. We wound up in the NCCC offices with a masked figure sitting behind the desk. We all had to answer a riddle before it took it's mask off. Once we got it, it was our team leader and we were with our team!
My team leader's name is Lauren, and she's so nice. She will be awesome to spend this year with.
As far as my permanent team, I'm totally happy. It's always a bit sad when you make friends who won't be on your team, but that will make it exciting to all meet back here for transition week. I will have pictures of my team soon to show you guys. We find out where we'll be serving/what we'll be doing tonight! So excited.

Today is training for specific jobs that we have on our teams. I'm the portfolio editor, which basically is putting a project summary together each project. It will be a good job for me, and nobody else wanted to do it. I can edit/delegate/and make a deadline : ]

love you all so very much and have an awesome day!

in process-
abigail d.