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hey!
just as an fyi, from the wednesday before thanksgiving through sunday morning after thanksgiving i'm most likely going to be in charleston, SC and would love to see some of you super duper people. i'm going with as many teammates as will fit in a rental car and am saying either with a teammate's sister or with random people from americorps OR last resort in a hostel right near where the teammate's sister lives. some of the time i may be with the kids on my team but i also have a huge amount of time that i plan on alotting for walking around charleston and exploring by myself and it would be so incredibly cool if the impossible happened and SOMEONE decided to road trip down coincidentally at the SAME TIME that i'll be there. i could easily find you shelter (though it MIGHT cost some small change) and you could totally stay for as long/short as you wanted to. just a thought. anyway. either way i hope you people have good thanksgiving festivities and such.
i'm doing well but am constantly exhausted from everything. we walked to the beach the other day to do yoga and we were walking past all the houses with the X's in spraypaint on them with number of bodies and pets found and such and it was weird thinking that this is where i live. we're supposed to integrate ourselves into the communities we're working with and so it's crazy realizing that it's my home, you know? this place where almost all of the houses are still destroyed and where there are shootings and poverty and high concentrations of races other than caucasian. it's so NOT cohasset and it's the new community that i'm supposed to be fully a part of. and what's great is that people totally accept you. i talk to people in stores and i'm making acquaintances with these people who until now i've only known about through news articles and tv broadcasts. i'm going to local chili cookoff this saturday i think, and the local high school football game on friday and we went to a save our schools barbeque last weekend where there were high school kids and parents and the high school drumline and the band and cheerleaders and little elementary school kids and teachers. and they talk to you and are incredibly accepting and it's crazy. i'm a part of this new community that's so drastically different from the ones i've been in so far in my life and so far off from the kinds of communities i'd ever imagined myself being a part of.
that's about all i have to say though, for now. i have PT tomorrow at 6 and that's sad so i have to sleep.
comment and tell me what you're doing and how things are and STUFF. i wanna know?!
just as an fyi, from the wednesday before thanksgiving through sunday morning after thanksgiving i'm most likely going to be in charleston, SC and would love to see some of you super duper people. i'm going with as many teammates as will fit in a rental car and am saying either with a teammate's sister or with random people from americorps OR last resort in a hostel right near where the teammate's sister lives. some of the time i may be with the kids on my team but i also have a huge amount of time that i plan on alotting for walking around charleston and exploring by myself and it would be so incredibly cool if the impossible happened and SOMEONE decided to road trip down coincidentally at the SAME TIME that i'll be there. i could easily find you shelter (though it MIGHT cost some small change) and you could totally stay for as long/short as you wanted to. just a thought. anyway. either way i hope you people have good thanksgiving festivities and such.
i'm doing well but am constantly exhausted from everything. we walked to the beach the other day to do yoga and we were walking past all the houses with the X's in spraypaint on them with number of bodies and pets found and such and it was weird thinking that this is where i live. we're supposed to integrate ourselves into the communities we're working with and so it's crazy realizing that it's my home, you know? this place where almost all of the houses are still destroyed and where there are shootings and poverty and high concentrations of races other than caucasian. it's so NOT cohasset and it's the new community that i'm supposed to be fully a part of. and what's great is that people totally accept you. i talk to people in stores and i'm making acquaintances with these people who until now i've only known about through news articles and tv broadcasts. i'm going to local chili cookoff this saturday i think, and the local high school football game on friday and we went to a save our schools barbeque last weekend where there were high school kids and parents and the high school drumline and the band and cheerleaders and little elementary school kids and teachers. and they talk to you and are incredibly accepting and it's crazy. i'm a part of this new community that's so drastically different from the ones i've been in so far in my life and so far off from the kinds of communities i'd ever imagined myself being a part of.
that's about all i have to say though, for now. i have PT tomorrow at 6 and that's sad so i have to sleep.
comment and tell me what you're doing and how things are and STUFF. i wanna know?!