Day Numero Uno

I made it!! YAYYY!  It's raining.  It's been pouring down rain since we got here.  Earlier a lightning bolt/thunder blast came down right outside our little house and I think everyone thought a bomb had exploded inside.  But, we've all been bonding and laughing and trying to figure out what we are getting ourselves into.  It's funny--there hasn't really been any guidance at the house yet in the form of like program directors/people who know things about our volunteer placements/people to tell us what to do, so we've just entertained ourselves playing cards and ice-breaker games and reading the random info packets scattered about.  We decided that it's like the Real World, but a more wholesome version.

It seems like it's going to be a really fun group.  We've got a nice mix of Canadians and Americans, the majority of whom are college-aged girls.  There's this one old man and none of us can figure out where he lives or how long he's here.  And we think there's a room of boys somewhere in the house that has already been here a couple of weeks, but we have yet to see them.  

I wish I could put up a picture of the house, but I haven't gotten that far with my blogging skills yet.  My room is a little tight...and by that I mean there are 6 of us staying for 4 weeks on 3 sets of bunk beds in a room approximately the size of mine and Leah's room in Warehouse.  The other room upstairs in the house has 6 people too that are all staying for 3 weeks, and their room is a lot bigger...yet another thing we don't understand.  

I figured it out! Here's the house:

We have breakfast every morning at 6:40 AM!!! And we leave for our placements at 7:30.  This should be interesting.  Tomorrow we have orientation at 8 AM, and then I think we are doing a scavenger hunt type thing around town (although, again, we aren't really sure what's going on..)  

I feel like I have more to say, but I need to go jump in the shower because it's my turn.  Ohh--on the van ride (a tiny van) from the airport the girl sitting behind me (very close behind me) got sick.  Good thing we were only like 10 minutes away from the house because the smell of puke permeating this tiny van was about to make the rest of us sick.  Oh AND the girl is Brooke Worthington's cousin! Crazy!

Ok.  I'm super excited for tomorrow and the next day and the day after that and all the other days too.  And that's all I'm going to say for now. 

Plus that I think I really like blogging.

:)