Hey Y’all!
I’m attempting to blog while I watch Blues Brothers in our common room, so there’s a chance things may be scattered. I am still having some difficulty with time management here. This week was less busy than last, but it still flew by. We started the week with a whole morning of unit time which was great! We drove all around the city and checked out the visitor center, the city park and the military park.
We did team builders at each site and probably looked extremely silly jumping around and making dinosaur noises in our uniforms in public- great team bonding though. (Carrie you would have especially gotten a kick out of the whole scene). In the afternoon we had leadership training, where we examined our leadership style through the Myers-Briggs personality type inventory and the FIRO-B social interaction inventory. I wasn’t surprised by anything mine told me, and I felt a lot more comfortable with the idea that I will be leading a team soon. My Myers Briggs indicated I was an ENTJ. I was extreme on the extroversion scale- no surprise there. The thinker/feeler and judger/perceiver aspects were pretty moderate for me. No strong tendency either way. The FIRO-B basically showed that I am extremely social. Shocking! Then we made individual action plans for our year as Tls to check back with throughout the year.
Monday night Sally, Jordan and I went out to the one bar in town for some fried pickles and a turbo dog (yummy Abita Brew). It was nice to get out of the dorm.
Tuesday the water was out for the whole campus, so we had to travel all the way to the chamber of commerce for the bathrooms. We did more training on projects and service learning, and heard from a current NCCC sponsor- very informative. We also did a crisis intervention workshop. We were supposed to do a ropes course on Wednesday and prepare for it on Tuesday night, but the contract didn’t go through so instead we just got more power point trainings. WOOP!
Wednesday was transition training and more project training. Then we did yoga for PT in the evening, and then Sally and Jordan and I went for a run around the neighborhood to check things out. It was sooo hot still at 6:30 and the hills were killer! Wednesday night we went to Karaoke night at the local bar. This place is definitely a small town- every head turned when we walked in. It was a great time, we have some serious vocalists on Team Green.
On Thursday we learned how to drive the vans… I did a lot better than I thought I would- I actually really liked it! Thursday night was Trivial Pursuit night- my team won, but no help from me (it was mainly just Delta Dan the Man)
Friday we did a round table on Southern Culture with guest speakers from around Vicksburg. I learned all about the confederate flag and the history of the civil war. Then we were off to the one other bar for fried pickles and some beer. We saw real live young people out for the first time! I think there may have been a wedding or something… Then we hit the casino but I was good and only played the penny slots.
Yesterday I slept in and then went to the military park with a group of Tls, then we came home and played some soccer in the 100 degree heat.
That brings us up to date…. Corps members come on Friday, so this week is all prep for their arrival. We are working on door decs and dorm hospitality right now…
Miss and love you all!
I’m attempting to blog while I watch Blues Brothers in our common room, so there’s a chance things may be scattered. I am still having some difficulty with time management here. This week was less busy than last, but it still flew by. We started the week with a whole morning of unit time which was great! We drove all around the city and checked out the visitor center, the city park and the military park.
We did team builders at each site and probably looked extremely silly jumping around and making dinosaur noises in our uniforms in public- great team bonding though. (Carrie you would have especially gotten a kick out of the whole scene). In the afternoon we had leadership training, where we examined our leadership style through the Myers-Briggs personality type inventory and the FIRO-B social interaction inventory. I wasn’t surprised by anything mine told me, and I felt a lot more comfortable with the idea that I will be leading a team soon. My Myers Briggs indicated I was an ENTJ. I was extreme on the extroversion scale- no surprise there. The thinker/feeler and judger/perceiver aspects were pretty moderate for me. No strong tendency either way. The FIRO-B basically showed that I am extremely social. Shocking! Then we made individual action plans for our year as Tls to check back with throughout the year.Monday night Sally, Jordan and I went out to the one bar in town for some fried pickles and a turbo dog (yummy Abita Brew). It was nice to get out of the dorm.
Tuesday the water was out for the whole campus, so we had to travel all the way to the chamber of commerce for the bathrooms. We did more training on projects and service learning, and heard from a current NCCC sponsor- very informative. We also did a crisis intervention workshop. We were supposed to do a ropes course on Wednesday and prepare for it on Tuesday night, but the contract didn’t go through so instead we just got more power point trainings. WOOP!
Wednesday was transition training and more project training. Then we did yoga for PT in the evening, and then Sally and Jordan and I went for a run around the neighborhood to check things out. It was sooo hot still at 6:30 and the hills were killer! Wednesday night we went to Karaoke night at the local bar. This place is definitely a small town- every head turned when we walked in. It was a great time, we have some serious vocalists on Team Green.
On Thursday we learned how to drive the vans… I did a lot better than I thought I would- I actually really liked it! Thursday night was Trivial Pursuit night- my team won, but no help from me (it was mainly just Delta Dan the Man)
Friday we did a round table on Southern Culture with guest speakers from around Vicksburg. I learned all about the confederate flag and the history of the civil war. Then we were off to the one other bar for fried pickles and some beer. We saw real live young people out for the first time! I think there may have been a wedding or something… Then we hit the casino but I was good and only played the penny slots.
Yesterday I slept in and then went to the military park with a group of Tls, then we came home and played some soccer in the 100 degree heat.
That brings us up to date…. Corps members come on Friday, so this week is all prep for their arrival. We are working on door decs and dorm hospitality right now…
Miss and love you all!
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