"Driver's Ed"

So yesterday we all watched a 4 hour video and took notes in a booklet about learning to drive the big 12 or 15 passenger vans here. Yes, I had to do it all too, even though I am not yet a licensed driver...blahhh, but on a positive note, I got a 100 on the quiz after! So if I DID have my license, I would have been able to drive :) After the video and written test, we went out in out teams and the people who are licensed drove around and passed or failed the driving test (luckily my group members are great drivers and all passed and did not crash the the vehicle!) We all had to take turns giving hand signals to back up the drivers into a parking spot, which I did well enough, but I was so nervous!
After the driving adventure, we had some team time and played "hot seat" where each person has to answer everyone's random questions for 5 minutes, then it's the next person's turn. It was really fun and interesting to learn some random fun facts about my team. For dinner my team made the best chicken tacos everrrrrrrrr! We had homemade guacamole and everything! After dinner, we went to the pool house expecting to see lots of people, but we were the only ones down there so we decided to play a game of scategories :) I love that game, but I haven't played for awhile, so I was a little rusty! After the game, we were hanging out chatting, and I got my brand new chapstick out, put it on, and realized that it had came out in chunks all over my lips...I laughed so hard showing everyone what had happened and one of my teammates said "well, that's the Mississippi melt for ya!" I think this could have been something where you just had to be there to fully grasp just how funny it all was...I was dying laughing and kept saying it throughout the night, finding each time even more funny than the one before! While we were chatting in the pool house, deciding what to do for the rest of our Friday night, a bunch of other AmeriCorps members came in at different times, all frazzled, talking about how they were at Sonic and a man with a gun came in and held them up for all their money and they all had to get on the ground so they would be safe and not get shot! AHHHH I love Sonic, but I don't know if I will ever be able to go there at night after hearing about that experience! I was sooo glad that I wasn't there! Somehow hearing about all that excitement made us decide to go out to a bar downtown...I was somewhat skeptical after what I had just heard about, but we went anyway and we found a cool place called the Upper End and they had pool tables, a dance floor, and a second floor deck you could sit at and enjoy the humid, buggy, 90 degree night haha. We sat outside for ahwile until we were sweating and getting eaten alive by "skeeters" then we moved inside to a table near the dancefloor, where we watched a drunken 50 year old woman in a cowboy hat wander over and to the jazz square dance by herself for the rest of the night on the dance floor...it was funny, but sad at the same time. Oh, she also had a broken arm, which my group and I concluded must have been from a previous drunken dancing experience! When we decided we had seen enough of this lady for one night, we got up and came back to campus to go to sleep around 12:30. I slept in until about 10am, which was amazinggggggg, had breakfast, took a shower, and now I am here at the computer lab because I don't know what else to do with my free time! We have some new members joining our team later today, so we will have another team dinner, then they are showing The Goonies, projected on the pool house later tonight, so we can sit in floaties in the water and watch the movie--I might join in, although I am freaked out about the possibility of snakes being in the pool...or we might all go out again tonight, but I will be sure and update to let you all know what I end up doing :)