Snow snow and more snow

So...Wednesday morning when we woke up, it had apparently been snowing all night. And...it hasn't stopped since then. On Wednesday morning, one of the team leaders came to our dorm to tell us we had a snow day. Then, about 10 minutes later, we found out they took it back and said we still had to go to Unit Time at 8:00. When we got there, we got new teams again. This time, there was a little activity to find out the new teams. They passed out little pieces of paper with our names and a line from a song on them. You had to find who else had a line from your song, and that was your team. When they finished passing out the papers, I hadn't gotten one. I went up to the front where the team leaders were to ask about it, and found 11 other people who hadn't gotten papers. Guess who my team was? The team leaders didn't know why they had lost one whole team of little papers. After that, we had free time, so my new team and I all went back to our dorm and watched The Sandlot in the lounge. What a great movie.

After The Sandlot we had to go to Media Training. They said AmeriCorps people get interviewed a lot so we need to be prepared with how to talk to the media. And something that has already happened to most of us is that people see us in public with the uniform on and ask what we're doing, so really everyone needs to know how to explain the program. Also, something I haven't mentioned before: Once we get our permanent teams (10-12 people), there are about 12 team roles that need to be filled. Heather, who was leading the Media Training, is in charge of Media Representatives, Corps Ambassador Program Representatives ("Cappers"), and Yearbook Representatives. Yes, we will get a yearbook at the end of the year. They also like to give the previous year's yearbook to Cappers to use as a recruitment tool. I had already seen a list of the team roles before I came and had thought that Media Rep might be fun, and now I'm more sure of that. At the end of the training, Heather gave us a little quiz with prizes for people who answered questions first. I won a handy dandy little NCCC flashlight key chain.

After Media Training was lunch and after lunch was...nothing. Snow canceled the rest of our day, which was supposed to be some PT (physical training) and something about Service Learning.

Today was probably the most important day of training so far, but we had a snow day because it just won't stop snowing. Disaster relief is the main focus of NCCC, and today was supposed to be disaster relief training from the Red Cross. I really don't understand why everything shuts down because of snow. We're in DENVER. Denver natives say this much snow is unusual, but still. Public transportation was still working, so several of us went downtown and had lunch at Noodles and Company, which was fantastic. Fact of the Day: Steel-toed work boots can also be used as snow boots. Very few people brought snow boots with them here, so most people have been wearing their warm, waterproof steel toes everywhere. It works surprisingly well. The snow is probably close to two feet deep by now, and my feet stayed nice and toasty all day. I had been thinking of having my parents send me my snow boots, but now I'm not sure I take up my already small amount of space with them. Going downtown and getting off campus was nice, especially after being in exile all weekend, but it was really cold. I think the high today was like 24 degrees but it was definitely worth it for eating non-cafeteria food.