Rampaging Blog
The meat of our sandwich, the Rampaging Blog is dedicated to stories, research, and interviews. It may also contain rampant musings and uncontrollable tangents.
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Opening Day
So yesterday was the big ceremony that we've been hearing about for so long now. It's the official induction into our year of service and marks the end of our month of training. It was also, coincidentally, the coldest freaking day I've experienced so far up here....
Moments from the Silver Screen
This weekend has been a big movie weekend!A couple of days ago my roommate across the way, Elena, asked me to see a movie that her friend had free tickets for. She told me that as soon as she heard about it she had thought of me, and when she told me the subject of it...
Hooray for Timberland!
Today we finally got our boots! For those of you who aren't in the know, Timberland has been an ardent supporter of City Year from the very beginning. We actually got to see a wonderful video from the CEO of Timberland explaining how that partnership came about and as...
The last worry-free weekend
Well, I find that I am having a bit of trouble keeping up with this. It's mostly because I've been going through my notes and journals and making blog entries for things that happened before and haven't wanted to write present entries until after I had finished the...
Out in the sun
Our first day of school is approaching, and with it all the responsibility they've been telling us about. So I've been using my relatively un-stressful time to wander around my neighborhood. I haven't made bread yet like I planned, I still need to go and pick up the...
Team assignments!
I got my first choice! I'm not sure exactly who my team members are going to be, but I know what team I'm on! First though, the retreat was wacky fun, full of all of the goofball antics I expected out of it. They broke us into "crazy" teams named after early 90s...
Getting ready to go on retreat
So we have settled pretty securely into training. It's a little slow, but it is interesting to get to know all the different projects and filling out our preference sheets so that the staff knows where to place us. There are basically four choices of projects here in...
Adventure time! Boxes can wait.
I’m not really unpacked yet, although all of my stuff is in my room. I'm slowly taking it out of the mass of boxes that are stacked precariously in the center of my room but I'm finding it difficult to find time to sit down and get it all in order. There are so many...
Dia de los Muertos decorations? It’s like being at home!
Well one thing is certain, City Year is definitely different. I knew that they prided themselves on their culture, it was one of the things that drew me to them in the first place, but I find that I didn't grasp how much that culture permeated everything that they do....
Saying goodbye
Early this morning I drove my dad to the airport. It's not that I'm not excited to be up here, or that the idea of living by myself away from my home is impossible to fathom (after all, I've done it before), but I couldn't help but be hit by a wave of melancholy as I...
Doing the touristy thing…
I’ve starting meeting my roommates, and we are quite the interesting mix. As I mentioned before, all of us are City Year corps members, but we are all from different states and from very different experiences. Some are college grads, some just got out of high school,...
Emerald City
Holy crap, Seattle is much bigger than I was expecting. I’m not sure why I had this idea in my head that Seattle was small… I mean, I understood that it was a big city on a logical level. That was a big reason for picking it in the first place. But there was a...
Road Trip
So I'm finally in Seattle! The last couple of days have been a little crazed. It all started with waking up at 6:30 in the morning on Saturday realizing I had fallen asleep still fully dressed and in my contacts without doing half the things I had planned to do after...