DC Summer of Service Training

So with our last project now fully wrapped up we began our training for Summer of Service. 4 days of team building, workshops on adolescent development, and program basics, including a great presenter named Craig Bowman, who had spoken with us at the beginning of the year as well. Very engaging, and relevant to what we'll be doing during our two months in D.C.

This morning our teams visited various houses in the village where we encountered different scenarios, where staff and TLs acted out potential conflicts as 16-17 year old crew members, and each of us was to manage a situation. It ended up being really beneficial, giving us a dose of what we might expect during SOS.

And now we're off! In about an hour the 26 of us will be driving and moving to DC for a little over two months. More on our living situation and the orientation to come once we're settled, living somewhere, and able to find/connect to wi-fi (crosses fingers).

Here we go!