And we're off!

Well...we're officially AmeriCorps!

On Saturday we all finally met each other.  Richard (Family Services) and I went to college together and know each other from Alpha Phi Omega.  Aaron (VISTA for Green Building) is from Arizona and actually went to summer camp for a few years with a friend of mine from grade school.  Katie (Construction) just finished a year of NCCC based out of Boulder, Colorado.  And..we're all absolutely fabulous!

On Saturday we all had dinner at the local Friendly's, and then came back to the house for conversation and a bottle of Summer Blush from Pindar, one of the local wineries.  The main conclusion was that we're all pretty chill people who seem to be on the same wavelength, which will definitely make living together a lot better.

Yesterday I moved into the house, for the week at least.  Aaron and I did some groceries, and when Richard and Katie came home, we all made dinner.  We had some really delicious homemade pizza with a great salad.  I'm really excited that, to some extent, we're all foodies.  We agreed that we'd love to have group dinners at least a few times a week.  The cooking is sure to be exciting!

Today was our first day in the office, and we (Richard, Katie, and I) spent the entire time filling out paperwork with Kathy while Aaron just looked on and laughed.  You wouldn't think that there would be such a drastic difference between the AmeriCorps programs, but Aaron is a VISTA and had significantly less paperwork, the majority of which was done online.   But we did get manage to get through it, and I think being stuck together in the conference room was a kind of bonding experience.