Amerihardcorps

Today is my second FULL day in Vinton, Iowa. I created a blog for friends and family who are semi interested in what I'm doing in the middle of no where. Driving here, I was amongst millions of corn fields and not very excited. Nervous more than anything. After a million hour drive I arrive in Vinton, "the city of lights"? Why it's called that I do not know. I also had my book on tape which was terrible but got me throught he whole trip.

I walk into the gym shaking with nervousness and I swiftly become pushed along a strip of people shoving papers in my face and telling me certain things that I need to do. Super intimidated I go up to my new room with my arms full of papers and crap. I arrive in my dorm like room. My roommate is a very peppy southern girl from Kentucky(oh no). So far we get along very well. Doesn't seem like she will be my best friend but we will get along fine. My neighbors are Faith from Florida, Laura, Sara from Virginia(who has already tried to hook me up with a cute bearded boy), and Lauren from Minnesota. very nice girls. No one is too clicky yet, I guess because we don't have out groups set. I love them all so far. This is a picture of some of them.

Breakfast is at 6AM!!!!!!! Oh my god, I need to get used to this. We are put into temporary teams until we get our permanent teams of 12 on Monday. We do EVERYTHING with our teams so if we don't like them, we are shit out of luck.

We train hard core until November 13th and after that we are put on our first spike. A spike is when we leave the school for months at a time and do some sort of huge project. I cant wait for my first spike!

Everything else is good. I miss family and friends like crazy and i miss Tink and Steve most of all! Isn't that weird? Tomorrow we have our physicals and then we explore the town some more. Sunday me and some chicks are going to drive into Cedar Rapids the nearest city and explore! I am home sick but having an amazing time already. toots.

-Linzertart