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Time to Say Goodbye

2/19/2019

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While I was enjoying my second round team, the staff of Habitat for Humanity Saint Vrain, the city of Longmont, and being in Colorado, I was also ready for a change.  I'm not sure what's wrong with me and routine, but they don't last.  I knew half my team would have loved to stay in Longmont working on these homes until completion, that's not how the program works, we had other places to be.  While I was mostly tired of the construction work, waking up and putting on my boots, I wasn't really ready to leave the new friends we had made at each site, both staff and other volunteers.  
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"So How's it Going?"

2/12/2019

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My first few weeks in Colorado, back during the long hours of training, I wasn't quite sold on the attraction of Colorado. Sure, the mountains in the distance were pretty to look at, but I had also been surrounded by that for my four years in South Korea. Longmont though had a little more appeal, a quaint downtown, free buses, multiple breweries, good restaurants and a few parks, I was cool with living there for a few weeks.  The town, the project, the staff, it was all going pretty swell, so I guess it makes sense that our departure came before some were ready.  Me being me though, I was ready to go , six weeks and I was growing stir crazy, ready for a new city, new routine and new friends.  I often wonder how I'll ever settle down somewhere, but that's not really necessary, is it? ​
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Habitat for Humanity

1/24/2019

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After spending six weeks in Texas working with the Fuller Center, one would think that I picked up a slew of construction skills and knowledge, however one would be wrong.  Sure, I learned a bit about drywall installation, tiling and floors, but I somehow didn't feel that I learned that much.  That could also just be my discrediting my own abilities, who knows.  Like I said, I wasn't initially excited to be building homes in the cold, but I kept my fingers crossed and hoped for the best.  Compared to the Fuller Center, I knew that our work with Habitat would be vastly different in one key regard, organization.  While in Texas, I often wondered what the team would be doing on a  day to day basis, I knew that this time around I'd have a little more direction.  Every week our first day of work would start with an all staff construction meeting, discussing the progress from the prior week and a rough layout of plans for the week to come.  This was like music to my (Type A)  ears, actual organisation and plans, things were looking up for this project.  
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Transition and Team 2

1/9/2019

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After the whirlwind that was round 1 everyone was given a break, 10 days to do with as they pleased.  While I would have been perfectly content staying on campus, enjoying the quiet, I was overdue for a holiday at home, after being away for so many.  It was nice to be home, I caught up on a lot of sleep and spent time with family, but after a few days I began to grow bored.  The longer I sat around 'relaxing' the less I wanted to head back to NCCC, instead I started looking up flights to Europe and Asia, despite knowing that I would go back to Colorado. The day I left campus I decided to change my return flight, combing back on New Years Eve to hang out with a few new pals, rather than scrambling to find plans at home.  My flight arrived late, so our plans were also a bit ad hoc, but I was happy to be back in my element.  I relished the two days I had on campus with only a few others back, but that quiet quickly disappeared. 
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    A Year of Service

    My life, being anything but predictable, has taken another turn. Rather than moving to Jeju, South Korea - my original plan for Fall '18, I'm going to test drive Denver, CO and its surroundings, an area people just keep telling me "I'd love".

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