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Some Pictures from my project in Toledo

Our backyard pool

our kitchen

the living room

my room

the field we work in for The Nature Conservancy

Toledo, OH

Just so everyone knows my next and sadly my last project will be in Toledo, OH working for the Toledo Botanical Gardens and The Nature Conservancy of Ohio. We will be helping the garden out with starting a community garden and will be helping the Nature Conservancy with keeping the Oak Savannas alive. They are a more rare eco-system then the rain forests. I hope everyone is doing well and i will update more often once i get my computer back to a working condition. My new power cord came in today and now i am just waiting for my new laptop screen. It should arrive towards the end of next week. Love yall.

One More Project To Go

This is an old post i didn't finish, it was while i was at home. Here are some pictures from the fire in Virginia

I found out my next and last project, it will be in Toledo, OH working for a Botanical Garden. Thats all i really know about the project and hope to find out more next week during transition. I have been home on break this past week and will be heading back east sunday morning. Its been a good week overall, I saw some friends, played some golf and basketball, applied for 5 jobs, and got rid of a lot of extra stuff i didn't need from Maryland. Well i don't feel like writing anymore so here are some pictures.

Fire Crew

Fire has been really rough so far. We are being forced to stay in the Hilton for two weeks. It sucks, we get breakfast at the kitchen downstairs every morning and they make us what ever we want while we watch them do it, we have only five choices of drink to choose from, aaaannnndddd we have to have waitresses take away our dirty dishes when we are done. On top of that we are only given $21 for dinner every day, I mean.... who is able to spend that little of an amount on one dinner. Its not like our entire dinner budget for the two weeks is more then we get a month for our stipend. (if you didn't get my sarcasm, we have very posh living quarters and a very nice food budget) The only downside to that $21 is we can only eat at: a fairly "nice" buffet, a mexican restaruant, and Ruby Tuesday's.

The fire that I am on is at The Great Dismal Swamp in Suffolk, VA. There are lots of peanut plantations surrounding everything and the town is "fairly" small. The team and I most likely won't see much fire if any, but we get to learn how pumping water into a very out-of-the-way fire works and possibly working with a machine called a Marsh Master to remove about 800 ft. of 8 in. piping through out the forest.

Update on life

I will be heading out Thursday night to go and fight fires in Virginia. I am really pumped to finally be going on fire, even though we may not actually see "real" fire. It may just end up being really good training with some Hotshots and most likely living in a Hilton for two weeks. One of the main things we will be getting out of this will be lots of really good networking for future jobs in Wilderness Wild Firefighting.

Right now I am on Vacation at the Point and it has been a really chill relaxing time so far. Just sleeping, eating, and watching the Olympics. I bought my plane tickets last night and will be back in Vancouver from September 1st through September 7th. Its not very long but hopefully it will be a nice break from the AmeriBubble. Talk to yall later and i will try to put some pictures up later this week.

Hey Everyone!!! Its been awhile and i actually have some free time where i am not completely exhausted to the point of having to sleep all of the time. I have had a lot of fun times, expecially trying to camp with these kids. Just to give you a little bit of what camping was like add: 50 14-17 yr. olds, 80 degree heat, 90% humidity, 12:00am, and being forced to stay in a tent with 5 kids all night. If you want to know the whole story or more of it, call either my mom or myself. i can't promise i will answer because i work 80-100 hour weeks and am busy that entire time.

Most of my team during transition

Pete's last night with our team and as a Corps member, he is now a team leader

Relaxing at Cafe Dumond (sp)

My team wining a push up competition

My team without April our third crew leader (she was off during the day)

My team at a low ropes course

Oh and my Dad called from Iraq today, it was really good talking to him.

Summer of Service

I am now back in New Orleans. We are staying in Camp Hope for two nights and then will be moving to Dillard University where we will be staying for the rest of Summer of Service. Thats about all the update i am going to do right now. Talk to yall later.