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A personal account of serving in AmeriCorps*NCCC.
About Me
The Untold Want
The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.
A Visual Accompaniment (photos)
- Round 4: USFS Wildland Firefighting
- Around Nederland
- Storm King Mountain hike
- Crew album from Oregon Dispatch
- Oregon Dispatch
- Round 3: USFS Wildland Firefighting
- Dispatch, Big Sur fires: my photos + crew photos
- Round 2: USFS Wildland Firefighting
- ISP at Buu Mon Buddhist Temple
- Round 1 Projects: Texas
- Frozen Dead Guy Days
- Chautauqua Hike
- CTI and Denver
Glossary
-NCCC: National Civilian Community Corps
-TL: Team leader
-UL: Unit leader
-Unit: A means of grouping corps members. The units of the Denver Campus are Earth, Fire, Water and Sun. The units are further divided into teams of 8-12 corps members and a team leader. I am a member of Earth 5.
-CTI: Corps Training Institute. It's all of the training that we did in Denver during the month of February.
-ISP: Independent Service Project; in order to graduate and receive the education award, all members are required to log 80 ISP hours, to be completed on our own time
-Spike: A project that requires traveling and living away from campus or designated member housing.
-ASB: Alternative Spring Break. Some universities offer students the option of traveling to a location to do volunteer work during their spring break. It often and most popularly takes the form of working with hurricane relief efforts in the Gulf.
-"Cut a tank": To cut with a chainsaw until you run out of gas and you have to refuel
-USFS: United States Forest Service
-"Throw a chain": When the chain comes off the bar of the chainsaw; usually occurs when cutting brush
-TL: Team leader
-UL: Unit leader
-Unit: A means of grouping corps members. The units of the Denver Campus are Earth, Fire, Water and Sun. The units are further divided into teams of 8-12 corps members and a team leader. I am a member of Earth 5.
-CTI: Corps Training Institute. It's all of the training that we did in Denver during the month of February.
-ISP: Independent Service Project; in order to graduate and receive the education award, all members are required to log 80 ISP hours, to be completed on our own time
-Spike: A project that requires traveling and living away from campus or designated member housing.
-ASB: Alternative Spring Break. Some universities offer students the option of traveling to a location to do volunteer work during their spring break. It often and most popularly takes the form of working with hurricane relief efforts in the Gulf.
-"Cut a tank": To cut with a chainsaw until you run out of gas and you have to refuel
-USFS: United States Forest Service
-"Throw a chain": When the chain comes off the bar of the chainsaw; usually occurs when cutting brush
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