From the Village to 9H

What's now been three weeks has felt like three months, with the Corps members arriving in just over a week.  We've had a variety of trainings so far, with one week left to prepare; it's time to really put everything together and hit the ground running faster now.

It's been an eventful week.  After of incredibly fun weekend with the Team Green staff, the men of the Raven Unit began the move to Building 9H, where we will live in a dorm-like setting for the year.  9H was once a hospital here at the VA, and we are gradually transforming it into the dorms that will house the Raven and Badger unit corps members once they arrive.  It's quite a change from the village, where we began, living in houses with individual kitchens, living rooms, etc.  But having been here for a week now, I can see that a sense of community will build fairly easily.  It's a lot like going back to college, with a common room and a dining hall, known here as our "dayroom" and giant "kitchen" which has several cooking areas.

The Raven Unit will live on the second floor, and the Badgers will take up the first floor (Wolf Unit is living in the village), each floor with their own dayroom, kitchen, laundry room, etc.  It will be an interesting experience; the 7 of us on the Raven Unit will essentially act as RAs, in true college fashion, as opposed to last year when TLs and Corps members had their own houses.  We're setting up a TL lounge, a place for us to congregate, or escape at times, if necessary.

The Raven TL gentlemen reside in a room on one wing of tyhe building, so the three of us will be the point of contacts for that end.  The 4 Raven ladies reside in the other wing, and will head up th eother half of the building.

Better get going, though.  We've got a lot of cleaning to do, much furtniture to move, and a good amount to inventory and label with our kitchen kits.  And launndry's got to get done at some point today.  More to come when the moment frees itself up...