Well, as most of you probably know this past week I have been in Anchorage for AmeriCorps training. The trip has been relatively good. I have really enjoyed it. Michael came with me which has been a great plus. I have been really enjoying the company at night, and whatnot.

Anyways, I first day started off with travel which went really good. Sheffield was a good dog. Which I was highly concerned about him, becuase well I really dont like traveling with the dog. It stresses me the hell out. Lol. Then Mike and I fight and well thats not good. But that didnt happen this time. Instead, I had forgottten I had a Nike plus thing in my shoe, and the security guys were back there really checking it out, and they were all concerned about my shoe having something in it. Anyways, finally mike is like you have that ipod thing in there. So, I asked them if that is what they were seeing and sure enough they took the thing out of my shoe. Then the stupid people had no damn clue what it was….. I couldnt believe they had never seen one. So yea that was a mess.

Then we arrived in Anchorage finally, where I have done a ton of training about energy conservation. Extremely boring things over and over again, but I do have to say that I have learned a lot, and I would like to share some of it with people back in our community or teach some of the kids at school about it. I think it is a great thing to teach people. Afterall, who doesnt want to save money. Also, while we have been here we have gotten to eat at Red Robbin which was fantastic as we both the love the place and havent been able to go there in awhile. Strawberry Lemonade…. Mmm. Anyways, back to the subject. Also, Mike lost his wallet the second day we were here by leaving it in a taxi when he went to buy us some pop. So he had to cancel out all his cards. However, lucky enough the taxi driver did bring back his wallet, which was great considering all the things mike carries in that thing.

Anyways, so now we are on our way home. Which I am extremely excited about being home. We have been sleeping in this room next to a a room with fighting people, and a screaming baby. Very lovely. lol. So yeah I will be happy to get some sleep.

Also, Mike’s birthday is tomorrow so we are going to be staying in Ketchikan and doing some stuff for his birthday. However, I am not completely sure yet. I will have to write again Saturday or Sunday and let you guys know how that went and what we did. I think we are going to be staying at my sisters house, which will be great for my sister. Sometimes I feel like our family needs to spend more time with her.

Well anyways, hope you all have a great weekend and I will update y’all soon on Mike and his birthday extravaganza.

Well, Internet is out here, we got about 2 feet of snow today. So I thought that I would write a blog to waste some of my free time. I finally have made it back home from Anchorage as of Saturday night. The trip was great, we learned many great things that we can do within our communities and with youth. I will definately being using a lot of the things that I learned in the future with my AmeriCorps postion.

Then Today, Monday, I started my first day of volunteer work. It was pretty simple for the day since it was my first day, and well, this first week will be mostly figuring out what all I need to do and how to go about doing. Pretty soon all of those great ideas will be falling together. One of the main things that I think I will be doing, is getting together a recycling program, helping out with science classes, and gardening.

Other than just AmeriCorps my life has been going pretty good. It seems like Mike and I’s relationship is going great. He bought me some beautiful flowers while I was in Anchorage which I think that I already told you about in the previous blog. Now I think I am going to buy me a wii. I just have to decide which package would be the right one for me.

Well, anyways, off to wait for the internet to start back up:( I hate not having internet. Ill get back to you on how well the AmeriCorps position is going, and how life in general is going.

So…. As you all probably know right now I am sitting in Anchorage at the Millenium Hotel, becuase I am at AmeriCorps training for the week. Yesterday, Sunday, I flew up here to Anchorage. Which was a long day. It started out at 5 in the morning driving over to the ferry. Then I went to Ketchikan, walked over to the airport, and then sat there for like 5 hours. Then I flew out of Ketchikan, and was on a plane for five hours. Then finally landed here in Anchorage where I was brought to my hotel. So as you can probably tell that was a long long long boring day.

Then after my long trip here on Sunday, I went to bed. Only to have to wake up at 6:00 this morning to head off to breakfast. Breakfast is 6:30 to 8 every morning:) Then we did some ice breaks with the group of like 38 people, so we could possibly get to know each other. lol. However, out of all those people, I remember very few.
Eddie, Shelby, Donna, Amy, Ami, Rob, Skip, and well that is about it… Lol.
I also knew Liz, Heidi, and Charlie but that doesnt really count becuase I already kind of knew them.
Anyways, then after all of that we went on with a boring day of training. Where we learned about methamphetimines. Which I actually kinda found semi interesting. If it wasnt for me already knowing all the information that was presented. As a few years back I worked with a Methamphetamine Prevention Coalition. But the program lost its funding. Maybe this is something that I could get started back with this whole AmeriCorps program. Huh. Never really thought about that.

Then we learned how to fill out our paperwork. Yah I know boring.

Then. It was to the food bank where we spent from 2:30-5 working sorting out foods. Which was actually really interesting, becuase when I walked in my teacher from highschool who now teaches at the North Pole was there. I was like wow! I haven’t seen her since I graduated from highschool which was like almost 3 years ago. Wow. Time Flies. Anyways, so we talked a lot as you would imagine, of course she wanted to know how her old student and old students were doing and whatnot. So that was fun! I was very excited!

And now…. Well I am just sitting here in the hotel wishing i had someone to talk to… Feel free to add me to messanger…… sabrinaclair@hotmail.com or the_alaskan_angel@yahoo.com or SAMB1208 for Aim or I also have MyspaceIM. So feel free to contact me. Also you can text me at 503-580-7717

Oh yeah and I also decided after a day of being here. That I do not at any point wish to live in Anchorage, Alaska. Smile. Just thought that I would make a note of that. Hope you all are having a good week.