Blitz.

     Well hello folks!  These last two weeks have been interesting.  I am now a (trial) member of a local gym in New York City, as well as most of my team. We have been going every day and taking classes, such as Zumba and abs.  It's a lot of fun!  As for work wise, Monday was MLK day which is a National Day of Service.  Ocean 7, along with another team called Summit 5, decided to help out with painting a community center in The Rockaways.  It was a lot of fun to wear our gray uniforms and do some physical work!  The NYC Service volunteers even gave us a free water-bottle and a free T-shirt for our service! After work we gathered in our hotel and talked about MLK day and did other service learning as well.

Cool T-shirts!

Ocean 7 - a silly picture!

     Other than MLK day, this week has been somewhat of a mess. We were struggling to have enough work at the Federal Court House, so they wanted us to join the Community Relations folks in a blitz in Coney Island.  A blitz is when they canvas neighborhoods and inform people to register for FEMA and also that they have the right to appeal and to go to the local Disaster Recovery Center.  Unfortunately I (and many others on my team) sat in the van for 3 days before being able to be part of the blitz, for a number of different reasons,  the main one being that there wasn't enough work to do.  Finally yesterday I got to canvas a neighborhood after being paired up with a FEMA employee. It sure was cold!  We were supposed to go again today, but it's snowing here which is not an ideal condition to be walking around outside all day.

the Corps.

In other news, FEMA Corps is starting up on other campuses throughout the United States!  Schweet!