Rhymes with "Cow Paw"

So in just over a week my team will leave for Alpaugh, CA. I highly doubt where you know where that is so....it will be a 4 hour drive south from Sacramento. It is also 3 ish hours north of LA. The area of the town is .99 sq. miles and just over half of the population is Hipanic.


But onto the fun stuff. We will be working for the Bureau of Land Management. We will mostly be doing an environmental project for wetlands restoration. But while we are there we will also be working with the school and doing after school programs. Even though we'll be so isolated my team is very excited to be out there. We will definitely be getting lots of team bonding time! Which will probably occur in what has been nicknamed the Ameri-mansion. Since multiples team work at this site each year there is a house that they always stay at. It is a 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath ranch. I'll put the address up when I know! That's just about all of the info I know right now but I'll keep posting about it.
Lots of other things have also been going on. We got assigned our team positions a few days ago. Me along with another member on my team (Sam) are going to be Peer Helpers. Our job is to always be there to listen whenever needed. We also get to plan team bonding activities and do our best to keep morale high throughout the year. This wasn't a position I put in my top 3 (it was 4) but either way I'm really excited about it and I think Sam and I will do an awesome job!
Another thing about today....we had a "class" about interpersonal relationships. For part of it we described good and bad qualities of different animals and then decided which one was most like ourselves. The options were ant, lion, owl, chameleon, lamb, weasel, dolphin, and fox. When we first talked about the qualtites I identified with many different bits of each so I was having a hard time choosing. Then I saw nobody was at the ant station so I decided to wander over there. Then each station had to describe their good and bad qualities and I realized the ant wans't too bad of a choice for me. I feel like I'm a pretty hard worker, I tend to "conform" to different situations, I respect hierarchies(random). A few of the down sides are that I get upset if people are goofing around in a serious situation and that I don't always voice my own opinion. But anyways, after that we got back together and discussed what the other people on our team thought we were like. When it got to me every said they could've seen me as any of them. I took that as a compliment :)
Well, long day so I might go to bed pretty soon. Goodnight!