Today was a strenuous day, let me tell you. We didn't have PT, so I was able to sleep in until 6:20. We had to meet at 6:45 to muster before our service project. We headed out to the parks of Sacramento. We stood around for a fair amount of time, and then went to a different park to do work. We were trimming hedges. We cut them approximately in half. There were a ton of us doing it, so we got done pretty early. We took a lunch break at 11:45. Then after a long lunch, we went and played on the playground waiting for further instruction. At approximately 1, 1:30 we came home, because there was nothing else to do. AmeriCorps NCCC is just too good.

This was our last week of training. It feels good to be done. We had to do a project briefing, which felt a bit like homework, and I am glad I am not back in school.
Yesterday was awesome...after a few unfortunate events. First of all, I spilled over half of my Nalgene onto my bed, it soaked all the way through, so I couldn't even flip over the mattress to sleep on the dry spot, it was wet all over, and it looked like I peed. After that, I lost my keys, which included the key to my room, my AmeriCorps i.d., my driver's license, my key access to the building, and a credit card. And that all happened right before we were going to leave, so I was really flustered. But...we went to a place called Sky High Trampolines, and we rented a trampoline court which was made up of about 15 trampolines, and split strategically in half to be ready for a dodgeball game, and all the walls were trampolines too. It was so cool, and we spent the whole hour playing dodgeball, and I had a lot, a lot of fun! I hope I have an opportunity to go back, but we leave very very soon, so that might be put on hold.
When we got back, my keys had still not shown up, so even though I had a ton of fun trampolining and had forgotten all about it, I was pretty upset when I returned to my unfortunate situation. There was a community event called "guess the straight person" which had a panel of LGBT... members, and we had to try to discern who was gay and who was straight after they answered a series of questions. It was not anything demeaning, and no fingers were pointed like "you acted this way so you must be gay," but it was meant to demonstrate how any one trait does not make someone gay. It was a really funny activity, and afterwards, my friend bought me sympathy ice cream because he felt bad about my keys (everyone here is so nice).
After the sympathy ice-cream, my keys showed up, and when I went to bed my matress was dry enough to sleep on, and everything ended well here in AmeriWorld.

The end.