Holy goodness!
Tomorrow morning at 8am I will be saying goodbye to the New England coast and saying hello to Mississippi!! On Thursday July 16 I received a voicemail from AmeriCorps letting me know that I had been accepted to be a participant for their south region campus. For anyone that knows me I've been anxiously awaiting a response since FEBRUARY. Needless to say I've been on cloud 100 ever since the phone call!
What will I be doing? Good question! I know that the campus that I will live at will be in Vicksburg, Mississippi. I also know that I am a part of a traveling program. In a nutshell - after the first month of training has been completed I will be put into a group of 10-12 individuals (18-23 y/o) and will travel from state to state volunteering with different non-profit organizations. I do know that a large portion of my time will be speant in New Orleans restoring homes that were destroyed during Hurricane Katrina.
A variety of emotions are running through me right now! I'm anxious and nervous to move to Mississippi and I'm sad to leave Ogunquit and my friends and family behind. I know though that this is God's plan and I really couldn't be any happier!
My hope is to keep up with this blog as much as possible. I'm not bringing a computer with me, but I have been told that there is computer access on the campus.
Within a half hour or so I will be headed down to Boston so that I can catch my flight in the morning!! Hope to write when I arrive in Mississippi!! Let the fun and life changing times begin!!
Thursday, July 30, 2009
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