MADE IT

Wow.

I'm in London. Sometimes that's the only thought going around in my head. Its been a whirlwind 2 days since I've arrived. When last I left you, we were in NYC for our orientation. Our first day together was alot of fun. Getting to know everyone I'll be spending the summer with. Right off the bat you can see who's going to be hanging out together. Some people just click. But we all were getting along. They took us to a pizza joint in NYC for lunch, and funny thing, they took us to a pizza joint in London for dinner. I don't know if perhaps they think we must really love pizza or that its probably the most cost effective dinner plan.

So a couple things, I'm pulling a Madonna. I've already started with a bit of an English accent. You guys at home are going to have a field day with this. I'm really enjoying my first weekend. I've been out both friday and saturday nights having a bit to much fun. I've met Gemma, she's our WCV (Winant Clayton Volunteer) Coordinator. I can tell I'm going to have a lot of fun with her. She's good people. She's all nice and British. She's been helping me figure out our communication differences. Its SO strange to speak the same language and not be able to understand each other. Our orientation over here was very thorough. We took a coach from the airport, the Tube downtown, saw the Tower of London from the gate. (its a castle, right there, staring you in the face, a big ass castle just sitting there in the middle of the city) And crawled the pubs. I would say its was a most eventful 2 days.

I start my placement tomorrow and am looking forward to a bit of boredom. I think, anything but going to a pub for a few days would be nice. I feel like I've said pub way to many times and its starting to annoy me. I apologize to the reader. Pub this, pub that, pub calls me every night.

Anyway

I've started my first VLOG. (thats video log for you dopes who don't know the lingo) and here is the first installement of JESSICA ELLIS VOLUNTEER.






I hope you enjoy, I am looking forward to many more because I want you to come along on this journey. I want to share it with my friends and family and anyone who wants to view. Giving back to humanity is not just work, its fun. I hope that watching my adventures will perhaps entice a few more folks to get out there and do something for some one else.

Thanks for reading.

Jessica Ellis - Volunteer