BREAK TIME HERE AT DC VILLAGE :O. I'll pump out a quick recap of whats been going on for the past two weeks.

The first weeks of AmeriCorps are now over. I'd have to say that so far this has been one of the best experiences that I could have ever asked for. My roommates are hella cool and I'd have to say this is the most social I have ever been in my entire life. Instead of just sitting around nerding on the internet all day, I go out with people everyday around downtown DC and just chill.

When I left in the morning for the plane around 4:30 in the morning, I knew I was going to be hella tired and that I would probably be a cranky bitch the whole flight. Turned out I was actually excited the whole flight that I didn't get any sleep. Instead I just chilled out to my iPod and then watched Stewie Griffin, The untold story on my awesome Laptop. The flight was too damn long though, Staying in one place for more then 4 hours kills my ass :(.

When we flew in, we were greated by a warm humid air in the airport, me and ryder grabbed our carry-on luggage and headed to find everyone else that was on the flight then proceed to the main terminal to pickup our remaining bags. Once we found our bags, we piled on to the vans that were waiting to take us and then we headed out to Anacostia, where we would be saying.

Now I know some people complain in portland that they live in the "ghetto" which is north east portland. Holy fucking shit. Once you visit anacostia, NE portland looks like a kindergarten class compared to anacostia. I think the only white people here in this part of DC is just the AmeriCorps personal. Not to be racist or anything, but yeah. This place seems to not be the place one should live in. The 2nd day we got here, we took a group of people "about 9 or 10 of us total" and we walked a little bit out from the AmeriCorps building. We walked up this big dark hill "Nicely nicknamed Murder Hill for all the crime that goes on in that little stretch". When we got to the top, the first thing I thought of was that this was like Grand Theft Auto-San Andreas in real life. I'm fucking serious. Every 5 seconds, you'd see people in groups go down the streets in bikes or just walking, music blasting in the cars nearby, People selling drugs to eachother, and the scariest thing, everywhere you turned, you would see a Police Car. I mean EVERY time you turned.

This is the fucking ghetto.

But nothing happened to our group, maybe I guess we got lucky.

A few days later we got put into our teams that we would be living with for the rest of our term. Everyone so far seems pretty cool. I have an Issue with some of the teammates not being on time or taking this stuff seriously, but maybe they'll put it together in the end. But the majority of the team is pretty awesome. We learned that today that at the end of our Training "CTI" that we would be first heading to the Gulf Coast region to help out with victims of Hurricane Katrina. I was actually really looking forward to doing some disaster relief because the people down there really need all the help they can get at this point after the whole FEMA fiasco.

As far as free time goes, most of it is spent with a lot of the people in my dorm/hall whatever you wana call it. On sunday, my roommates, me and a few others went downtown to go sight seeing. I took a few pictures with my phone of the Capital building, the washington monument, supreme court house and the smithsonian art museum. We're probably going to go sight seeing some more this upcoming sunday as well. After we went sight seeing, we went to chinatown to get something to eat. We ate at this place called Wok and roll "original name, good job chinatown". Blah blah, ate food, then went back home.

Oh yeah, and I have a piece of advice to all of you.

DO NOT EVER EAT FUCKING JELLY BELLYS BEFORE A DRUG TEST.

When our physical examinations came, we had to take a drug test. That morning when we woke up, I forgot that ryder had packed a bag of jelly bellys with him and he was never really going to eat them because he was on the way to a "healthy" diet. So I indulged myself to a few handfulls of jelly bellys on my way out the door and felt good cause jelly bellys are the shit.

So when our team got to the doctors office, we all sat down waiting for our names to be called. When it was my turn, I did everything alright "PPD tests, vacinations etc". Then the drug test.

So I peed in the cup ya know, cause I was like "Like I do any of that shit". Gave the woman the cup and she was like "Uh oh this isnt good, you have a high glucose level in your urine" aka SUGAR. So she gave to me my level of Glucose "250"

250, TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY. How the fuck did all that sugar get into my urine is my question.

She explained to me that I might have diabetes, which at the time I was a little concered due to my eating habbits of this summer. So she told me to go see one of the doctors 2 floors down the next day.

The next day I went to first get my blood drawn, then around 5:00pm I went back and the doctor questioned me about my family history of what has gone on in the past. Gave him my answers and then he gave me a brief examination. He noted that I have had a lot of weight gain from freshman year to present and that I had some stretch marks below my arms. These could be the cause of some disease that IS treatable, but it all depended on my glucose levels in my blood. So after about an hour he released me and I went back to the village.

Today I got the results back from the doctor and the glucose level in my blood was 90.

90 IS WAY BETTER THEN 250, aka I am ALRIGHT.

Moral of the story, NEVER EAT JELLY BEANS BEFORE A FUCKING DRUG TEST

Thats all for now, peace out homes