This blog is making me carsick.

I have been dying to blog for what feels like forever. Really probably since my LAST blog post. And now I'm blogging from the 15p on my phone which will inevitably make me nauseous. I just haven't gotten around to it, we have had so much going on! Okay I need to stop, I hate making excuses for myself. I just didn't do it, okay?! Stop judging me, I see you with your judge-y face on. Put that away and read.

A lot has happened since my last post! We've made it past halfway through round 2, and we are well past halfway through the program. I'll actually be on campus in 19 days and graduating in 82 days! Time has flown by. 

We had another team come stay with us last weekend and I got the lovely company of three other team leaders. It was glorious! Our teams hiked and ate together, played music, and had lots of fun. Also, everyone on my team had a huge heart-to-heart two weeks ago when I stepped out for the day, and they all talked out their problems and hugged it out and even cried a little and it was the best thing to ever happen to them for team morale. So the past two weeks have been the happiest I've seen them all since CTI. We've had the best two weeks ever, and we're all going out for pizza tonight. 

Anyway, I try to center my blog posts around a topic but I feel like this is just so much information that I can't! Our work in the deployment branch is going so well, and I can't disclose anything else at this time but we're loving it. We're a little TOO used to it, because I want to answer every phone call I receive with "FEMA Deployment this is Allie" and every time I get introduced to someone I want to ask them to spell their name for me. Virginia is as beautiful as ever and the weather is getting to be pretty nice (except for that snow we are supposed to get Monday... Shhh!) 

I'm honestly just so happy that my team settled some of their differences. It's beautiful to get in the van and hear laughter, and work out together and hear encouraging phrases. They cook together and race to help each other clean up and do dishes. It really did happen in less than a day, they woke up that Sunday on the verge of civil war and went to bed as friends. I wish I could say I had something to do with their progress, but I think it shows a lot that someone took the initiative to start that conversation, and I don't think I ever need to know what was said that day. 

Come to think of it, one of the themes for this round is pleasant surprises. I've had so many happy, wonderful things just appear out of nowhere, and I hope that all of the bad is done and over with. I'd like to finish these last 82 days as positively as possible.