Mendocino - Red Wood Forest and life

Hello people,

I apologize for being so lazy and not writing for awhile. I honestly do not have much of an excuse, although life has been a little busy, I have been doing a lot of laying around. So basically, I just suck at life.

Last Tuesday - Thursday we went on a little trip to Camp Mendocino a camp for the Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco. The trip was basically a "mini spike." It was practice for living in sub standard places and living with your team. Although many people seemed to enjoy this trip, to me it was just like being at a cold, wet, camp with very little to do. As usual we had quite a bit of downtime with very little to do. However, when we were working, we had a great time. We spent our one main work day doing a ropes course with the team and then clearing brush from a foresty area to prevent forest fires. If I had a picture of what I looked like by the end I would post it, because I was dirty from head to toe...disgusting, covered in dirt and really sweaty. It was a really good day, we got a lot accomplished. The ropes course was also amazing, we were really able to connect more as a team and were able to work on some of our team weaknesses. Perhaps the best day was watching my teammates overcome their fears on the high ropes course.

So that's basically Mendocino in a nut shell. I will gladly answer more questions about it if you'd like...but really there wasn't that much more there. Oh, the redwood trees...freakin awesome! They were huge and so different than any trees I have ever seen before. I will be in LA tomorrow, so I will work on putting all my pictures online for all to see!


So besides that, there hasn't been that much going on. I am getting really excited about it! We leave in 6 days for the gulf, stopping in CA, NM, San Antonio,TX, and Baton Rouge, LA! We had another baseline today...where were saw where we were at in terms of physical fitness, I improved my running time by about 1 1/2 minutes! woo. umm...tomorrow we get inducted and then its thanksgiving break! I'm very excited to see LA!


sorry this is so all over the place, I'm in between meetings and have quite a bit to do...must begin packing! hooray.