Kristy's AmeriCorps Adventure: Disaster Recovery Center #41

Well folks, good news. Ocean 7 has officially found permanent work, and it feels great! We are now working at DRC 41 located in Stated Island. Interestingly enough this DRC is seeing about 160 people every day, which means there is a lot to get done and learn at our new DRC. We even got reunited with some of our FEMA Family from DRC 9, Leslie and Ricardo. We are glad to be back working with them. What have we been doing? A mixture of things really. The first day there I shadowed a reservist and helped him out with the cases. The next day I learned how to do RIMS (which honestly I forget what it stands for), and it's the system they use to track the who what when where and why in the DRC. I basically entered in the computer the applicants name and information, the time they came and left and also what they did there/what agencies they visited. Then the next few days I did reception, which was quite overwhelming since there are just so many people to check in. I honestly did not think there were any DRC's left that still had this many people coming every day. It reminds me of why I'm here and I try to help as much as I can. I am excited to get the chance to do my own casework again.
This weekend I explored the streets of Manhattan with a few of my roommates and teammates, Nateanna and Casey. We also bought tickets to see a comedy show which we will be attending next weekend. We went to Central Park in search for Balto, as well as for a tattoo shoppe in search for my friends to get tattoos. Last weekend I went to Chinatown for the New Years and also went to see the 9/11 Memorial. In other news, we are officially below our food budget which is pretty impressive for living in New York with very hungry teammates. A FEMA Corps team from my Unit (Ocean) has been deployed to Mississippi in response to the tornadoes there, but as for Ocean 7 we are pretty sure we are staying put. We had a meeting with our Unit Leader named Justin who came up here to check on us and his other teams. As for schedule, we are now leaving for work late morning! 9 AM we head to the van and get to Staten Island at around 10, and then leave around 4:30. I have been cooking some cool new things recently, including fried rice the other day. It was a success, although I forgot to add the tofu. Next time I suppose. We are continuing to watch movies as a team and bond with board games. Our newest game is called "Werewolves", which is a game very similar to Mafia but WAY cooler and a bit more complicated.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.