My AmeriCorps NCCC Adventure: Home Sweet Home

At some point during my service, the Denver Campus hosted a Life After AmeriCorps Day, where representatives from potential future jobs, university and military recruiters, and even a guy with a tarantula (can't remember what organization he represented but I do remember the cold sweat and nerves when he let me hold the spider) gather to offer us some sort of peace of mind after graduation.

Sidenote: I tackled two of my phobias last year, spiders and snakes, by holding them. Not the easiest way, but definitely a very effective one. If you have a fear of heights and want to talk skydiving, I am an experienced amateur with 13 jumps, feel free to leave a comment.

Lucky for me, I already knew what I was going to be doing - I was going to be a fancy, all-knowing and all-powerful Team Leader (for those of you who are reading my blog and do not know me, my apologies for the sarcasm, I have been trying to curb it). That's not the point I was going to make though...

One of the LAA seminars was an alumni panel. I don't remember much, but I do remember two things: one, my roomie and my jokester friend giving me a broken chair and my falling for it (pun intended), bruising my behind, and the laughter that followed; two, one of the alumni describing her first weeks following graduation (which she highly anticipated) - two weeks of laying on her couch, reminiscing, and crying.

Lucky for me, my friends and family had my short five week vacation planned out to the minute, giving me zero time to mope. Since this blog is about my experience in AmeriCorps and not my life outside of the bubble, I won't go into too much detail about my summer. However, the photos below could serve as a Pinterest board of ideas to decompress after 10 months of steel-toed boots, physical labor, and very little "me" time.