NCCC Atlantic Region 2010 CLASS 16 “I’VE LEARNED” •
That it’s not about your age, it’s about your “A”
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How to hold your pee while waiting to use the 1 bathroom for 11 people
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It works better to complete a job imperfectly then to not complete it at all
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That you meet some interesting people at 3 AM in the Philadelphia train station. For instance…evidently the ice age is coming.
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What it is like to get up in the morning and go to a job you love.
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How little I need to be happy
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That garden tools make the best weapons
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That eventually everyone on my team became attractive to me
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Though your first reaction may be to run far away, flatulence actually brings people closer together
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Patience and flexibility are much more than virtues but a way of life in AmeriCorps.
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That bad habits are harder to break than good ones are to learn
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Caffeine cannot actually replace the need to sleep
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If you bite a goat in the neck you will establish dominance
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How to co-exist with spiders
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How to earn myself a set of beads on Bourbon Street
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That if you scratch it, it will indeed get worse
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That the best road trips are the ones you take with friends in a giant government van
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Wearing the same pair of pants for a week straight really isn’t that hard to get used to anymore
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That a wood stripper will remove human skin but not human hair
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How much a team is impacted by each individual member
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That you can’t find love in a 15 passenger van
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That it takes more patience than you knows or understands to live and work with 10 diverse, opinionated people.
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It ain’t easy being green!
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That a man should not be judged by the color of his skin but by the amount of hair he can grow on his head and face in a ten month span.
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The different forms poverty takes
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That going Commando ain’t so bad
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How to sleep almost anywhere at anytime
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That in AmeriCorps you never know when your next meal is coming so when the food hits the table, IT’S ON…
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That all you need in life is what you can fit into a red spike bag
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That buying underwear is better than washing underwear
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What “shark week” is and to just ignore the girls when it happens!
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That making a difference is as much about the work we do as it is about the attitude we exhibit while doing that work.
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Electric shocks sometimes feel good
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What it is like to have four seasons
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With no other entertainment, 8 Corps Members can be transfixed by a bug circling a light fixture and a cell phone sound track.
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Steel toes are a good investment
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Seeing potential in something and executing a vision is probably the most fulfilling thing in the world.
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That the AmeriCorps NCCC Atlantic Region Class 16 got some serious things done for America!!!