And then there were 6

On thursday evening Kelly (my Team leader) told us that a disaster response team was being formed to go to Wisconsin, to help with the flooding. This ment that one person from our team, and some people from other teams were going to have to form a composite team. I was not eligible because I left my team back in July for SOS. Erin decided she would go, even though she is kind of shy and was nervous about who the other people on the team would be. On Saturday, Kelly drove her and another guy from a Biloxi team to New Orleans to meet up with their team that was flying into there or were already living there. THey headed up to Wisconsin, a nice 3 day drive, on Saturday evening. The disaster composite team will spend 3 weeks up there and then drive back across the country to Sacramento, the same time we are driving back.

Friday night Kelly and I decided we should go out for ice cream for Erin's last night. The personalities of my teammates and my frustrations can be seen in what happened with this simple ice cream invitation.

1 teammate was out of town, visiting her boyfriend on another team. . .she would have gone had she been here.
1 teammate was not speaking to any of us because a few hours earlier he exploded and started yelling at us over something stupid that he felt was a huge deal. Typical occurance, but now he has segregated himself from us and others living here because he caused an unneeded scene. So obviously, he did not go because he was pouting.
1 teammate said without hesitation that she was going to the pub for a Hands On girl's last night instead of going w/ us to Erin's goodbye outting. Obviously we can see where her priorities are.
1 teammate said he would go with us and then go out w/ the Hands On people later. When he found out we were also hitting up barnes and nobles, he decided not to go, but that's ok, he recognized why we were going and had good intentions to go.

So kelly, erin and i ventured out and enjoyed some delicious ice cream, completely defeating all of the working out we did over the week, but it sure was good.

As you can see, the idea of "team" doesn't really exist. I am missing Erin already, but i am glad she is stepping out of her comfort zone by going to Wisconsin with people she doens't really know from our campus!
We have a busy 3 weeks left, and i know it will fly by. All these frustrations are making me a stronger person. . .right?

Hope everyone has/had a happy labor day!