Damn, what happened? Things actually seemed to work out well this time. I got my permanent team assignment yesterday, and I think I lucked out. The people that I'm working with are all intelligent, dedicated, and capable (far more so that I, but I digress); I did not get stuck with any of the people that I did my best to avoid during the first three weeks of training.
But that's only half of it. What I was really wondering about was my project assignment. After a bit of suspense-building by Carly (my team leader), she finally revealed it to us:
Habitat for Humanity, New Orleans.
NEW FUCKING ORLEANS. Even before I became familiar with AmeriCorps, that's where I wanted to go. The city is still in need of massive amounts of reconstruction and cleaning.
So when Carly mentioned Habitat, I figured I knew what we were supposed to do. The ten of us would work with a couple construction professionals to build and refurnish a house, right? Wrong
The ten of us would be in charge of over a thousand volunteers, mostly college students, coming down for Alternative Spring Break on not one, but ten different project sites. Each of us would handle a hundred people, and would be the second-in-command behind the site supervisor.
Holy shit. How the hell am I going to lead a hundred people to build a house when I can't even figure my own shit out?
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