hi friends and fam. i have two bits of exciting news, one is that i finally got some pictures up, so go look at them now! the other is that we found out where we are going for our fourth (and final - tears) round project!!!! and pretty much it is going to be the most amazing project ever, just like all of them have been...but seriously. it sounds incredible. SO we are going to huntington, massachusetts to work at a ymca camp. actually huntington is just the closest town, because really this camp is out in the middle of nowhere, like in the woods and right next to a lake. amazing already, right? so we will be living in cabins (either one big one or a few smaller ones, we aren't sure yet), cooking our own food (that'll be the first time since the bronx, so that's exciting), and working to help build and maintain this camp, and sometimes doing some work at the actual ymca in town. and there will be a few weekends where we will get an oppurtunity to actually work with kids, which will be so fun. so we are so excited for this project - not only is it in the northeast (during the fall i might add) but it will be like we are ending our year the way we started - on the east coast, and doing a project where it will just be us. i mean we have loved being down south and getting to meet and work with people from all over, but it will be nice to get to end our year with just our team, so that we can really take full advantage of being together and working together. and i think that the administration at perry point has really recognized throughout the last few months how special our team is in terms of how well we work together and how much we love each other, and i think they are really rewarding us with this project...that's what i like to think anyway. but really, everywhere we have been so far, pretty much anyone that we have talked to has said that they have never seen an nccc team that has gotten along as well as we do. i seriously feel so incredibly lucky, i really don't know how i got blessed with this team but it happened and it is awesome. and graduation is going to be pretty much the most heartbreaking day ever...it's not even fourth round yet and megan and i can't even say two words about the end without both starting to cry. it's going to be bad news. but good at the same time.

anyway - even though i am really excited about our next project, i am still loving this one and getting pretty sad about leaving here in two weeks. i'm still leading mold teams, which is going well, although we have had a few problems lately. mostly just that it's been me, megan, tosh, tasia, and danielle doing mold almost every day for 6 weeks now, and let me just tell you, it is not easy. the thing is that they have no one else besides the five of us to lead mold teams, and so we've really had no choice in doing it - and i mean that is what we signed on to do, but when it's just assumed that you will do it every single day and there's no question as to whether or not you need a break, it gets really annoying. and there really hasn't been much acknowledgement of the fact that we have been doing it every day for this long either, so that just makes it frustrating, when we are working our butts off and not getting much respect for it. anyway - we ended up having a really bad day yesterday and we went and talked to some people about the whole situation, and they seemed to understand, so we got the rest of the week off from mold. which is an amazing feeling. so hopefully things will improve, and the other thing is that there are two new nccc teams coming on monday so we can start training some of them to replace us. so yeah...that's about it workwise.

so go look at those pictures!!!

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