So much to write. So little time.

This is a post I wrote last Friday:


I’ve been sick for over a week! I’m finally starting to feel like my old self again today. It’s glorious. We had a multitude of “coming out” events last week for the Corps that I feel I should expound upon. On Wednesday morning we were invited to a Rotary lunch (the biggest Rotary if I remember what Paul said correctly) I read the Invocation, Chrissy gave her testimonial (it made everyone cry, so inspiring). We lined up as a Corps and introduced ourselves (name, age and hometown) and then we recited the CityYear Pledge. We were all sexy in our uniforms, I’m not gonna lie. It made me ridiculously proud. Then we had opening day at City Hall on Friday. That was cool though I really wanted my dad to be there and my sisters. I read the Invocation again (which I had to recall from memory… apparently I’m the Corps Chaplin, not really) anyways, Sapphire and Matt Lugo gave their testimonials. Again, very inspiring. On Saturday we executed the Action Generation Service Summit. City Year spear-headed the coalition for that. I got to be a Project Coordinator for a project at Hemisfair Park. We painted park benches. The coolest part of the weekend was the fact that Layton came to visit! We watched the Dawgs lose on Saturday night… but had a great weekend overall. Jill and I visited the First Unitarian Universalist Church on Sunday and we pretty much fell in love (except for the plethora of spam that’s been invading our inboxes because of the visitor card…) It seemed very much our speed and was a very welcoming place. We’re definitely planning on going back this Sunday and hopefully bringing along some more people who would love it.


And this is what I have to say today. We had another great week at McAuliffe. We got lots of planning accomplished. We hammered out the plans for our first meeting with all our tutees and mentees. We also did a lot of lesson writing for our lunch clubs. On Friday we filled out all the information for our Food Stamps so it’s good to know that the ball is rolling on that one. Saturday was the first big service event that our CE team planned on their own and it was a HUGE success. They did a great job. It was at Avance which is a center for lower-income families, especially with children under 3 years-old. We brought in about 80 students from KIPP Aspire Academy. They worked on painting the fence. We also had volunteers from First Mark and they worked with Matt Lugo, Charles and me on building some benches and picnic tables for the center. It was a lot of fun to have the opportunity to PC a group again like I did last week at Hemisfair Park. Lauren’s boyfriend, Justin, is in town. It’s been great to get to know him. We all hung our at the “commune” last night and watched the Holiday and What About Bob. Today Jill and I attempted to make it to church again, but after missing our exit on the highway we decided to stop at a diner and just have brunch instead. We met Sasha at the River Center Mall and watched Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. It was cute. Then we went window shopping for a while. I was very tempted to buy these amazing cowboy boots. They were way too expensive so I didn’t, but I did decide that a trip to an outlet store to get some is definitely in order.

That’s the quick update on the past two weeks… I won’t procrastinate next time.