CTI (Corps training)

A month has past since I've sat down and got out all of my new experience.  I'm sitting in the back of a van on the second day of our travels from Mississippi to Long Island to do work with NECHAMA. For the next couple of months we will be finishing the build on houses that were ruined in Hurricane Sandy helping this community finally get back on their feet. If you would have asked me four years what I would be doing at 22 I don't think this would have been anywhere on my radar. 

After a horrendous journey down to Mississippi with delays, missed flights and missing luggage I arrived in Jackson, MS as an NCCC member serving on the Atlantic campus. After getting to our sister campus I realized quickly that nothing was ever going to be the same again I just didn't know how much could change in only 4 weeks. In just 4 weeks I didn't just meet new lifelong friends but people that quickly became my family. I have learned tangible skills like first aid and CPR but more importantly I learned that (or confirmed) my long belief that everything has lead me to this back seat, of this van, with these people. 

I know this journey won't be without a few hiccups but I've never felt more alive or more at ease with who I am than I am in this moment. I don't know what New York will bring or where I'll be in 9 months but for now I'm happy, healthy and ready to serve.