PSO in Boston

Two day PSOs are not so much like month long PSOs like NCCC has conditioned me for.

It lacks Red Cross Classes and creepy looking mannequins.

There's no driver training and pretending you can remember everything about a twelve passenger van for when you become the vehicle specialist eight months later.

There are no uniforms so there's confusion in the morning when suddenly you don't have to wear BDUs and make bigger decisions than "Should I wear my long sleeved or short sleeved grey shirt?" or  "Do you think I should wear the fleece vest?"

There are still people that tell you where to go and what to do.

 You still stay in hotel rooms, but not because you're on spike travel from New Orleans back to Denver.

So a little background on myself: I'm a 19 (almost 20) year old from Ohio...or anywhere. Since I graduated highschool in 2005, I've been travelling with Americorps*NCCC. I almost went back as a second-year corpsmember so I could be on a sweet team with someone from my original team being my TL, but I decided against it. 

 NCCC, for me, consisted of gutting houses all day (taking anything and everything out of a house like mud, carpet, toys, dry wall, furniture, sinks, mirrors, and windows...not in the order), everyday; canoeing with alligators in Louisiana's swamps and bayous; attending high school football games in the Chicksaw capitol, and freezing on the weekends while hiking around the streets of Denver.

After graduation, I deliberated for a couple of weeks in Ohio about what I should do exactly.

VISTA and I had this long conversation about why I should join it and why it would be good for me.

Comment from Catherine Moore on January 18, 2007 - 6:01pm

Hello hotel roomie! Indeed, I imagine the VISTA will be quite different than the NCCC AmeriCorps experience, but definate props to you for pursuing both, and I still want to hear more about your NCCC experience!