Over the past week we learned who would be in our teams, who would be our team leaders and what Unit we would be in. I already knew I'd be in the Silver Unit because of my application for a Fuel Reduction Team (FRT), but my team was still a mystery. On Sunday night everyone gathered in the main building and our loving pods split into our assumed new Units. There were about 70 of us in the Silver Unit including two other members of my pod, both FRT-bound. We recieved our clue, and proceeded to the water tower near campus. There we all stood around for about 10 minutes until I took intitiative and searched the area for a clue of some sort. I found our map and we all walked to our destination. There our Team Leaders greeted us and told us about our Unit and their expectations for us. The next night we found out who our teams would be through the same sort of process.
I am Silver Two, with Wareth, Mike, Maggie, Christina, Finley, Anthony, Ron, Ben and our Team Leader (TL) Paul. We have 7 men and 3 women and are potentially the hardest working, highest-potential team. After our first dinner half our team volunteered for Physical Training (PT) the next morning at 5:30 even though we had the day off, we jogged in between locations during training and we were the first team to have a definite chant and general "team unity".
Our chant I wrote goes like this:
TL: Silver who?!
CM: Silver Two!
TL: Silver who!?
CM: Silver Two!
TL: Burn it, clear it, chop it, rock it! Silver who?!
CM: Silver Two!
I'm extremely pleased and excited to work with my team as they are all like-minded in their expectations and interests for the year. We also decided on team positions, I am a Media Representative and also our PT Coordinator.
Also, today I along with others in the Silver Unit helped Habitat for Humanity move pre-fabbed walls, paint drums and inventory some of their things for an Independant Service Project (ISP).
Overall the members of the Silver Unit are probably the most competitive, hardest working and most driven individuals out of any of the teams mainly due to the 4 FRT teams (that's not to say other units and teams don't work hard, but the general nature of those who signed up for FRT are those types that like to challenge and push themselves).
Tomorrow: Camp Medocino - 4 days, 3 nights of team-building and service projects! Outdoors in the redwood forests in open-air cabins! Woot!
-J
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Whoooo! This all sounds incredibly badass! So were you guys supposed to be searching for a clue to your destination, was it a test or something? This all sounds like very good times, good luck with team building!
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I'm jealous. I've never seen the redwoods. I need to come out there to visit you and go see the big trees.
ReplyDeleteDad
So freakin lucky! you better take some photos for me
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