Hello and Greetings

Greetings everyone!

I'm Peter and I'm starting this blog to document my upcoming adventure with Americorps NCCC, a full-time residential National Service program. Its (approximately) 2 weeks until I leave my home of Southern California and travel to Perry Point, Maryland.

Its taken a lot of waiting to just to get to this point, and probably a bit hope and faith. If its one thing I've learned during this application process, its to have patience. I first applied for NCCC in June of 2009, and was only accepted in early-December. I was tentative about yelling my acceptance from the rooftops a month or so ago, but once I received my Welcome Packet 2 weeks ago, it finally seemed definite. Only a few days ago I received my travel information from the NCCC office, and now I'm excited, nervous, pumped, and everything in-between.

In these past weeks, I've been preparing myself for my 10 month (wow that seems long when I type it) adventure. I gave my two weeks notice earlier this week to my manager at the Cabrillo Scout Shop, and bought some winter clothes for the cold temps and snow in Maryland (I guess I've been spoiled growing up in SoCal, where the coldest it usually gets here is 50 degrees or so, and thats pretty rare in itself).

In between getting all my ducks in a row and making sure everything is in order before I leave, I'll be going on a small adventure with my dad next week. We're planning a week-long roadtrip to see Zion and Bryce National Parks and Monument Valley in Utah, all of which I have only seen in pictures. We're hoping that the weather holds with all the intense storms we've been getting out here on the West coast. I'm sure we'll see a lot though.

Well, I think thats enough for my first post here. I'll post some more stuff as A-Day (AmeriCorps Day, I just made that up) approaches.