Pre Aurora Part 1

 Hi my name is Isaac Vizas, I am an 18 year old male human from Studio City California and for the next ten months I am going to be serving my country through Americorps NCCC, which to those unfamiliar with it is basically the peace corps that stays in the U.S. There are a lot of things that people should be feeling right now, patriotism, compassion, and general positive attitudes about helping my country and all sorts of other things listed in the website. If I said I was feeling those things right now I'd be lying, what I'm feeling right now is a mix of pure primeval terror and excitement at the thought of leaving my family, my friends, my dogs,  my home and everything else I ever knew save for a few items that I'll be bringing with me on my journey. To put this emotion into words imagine the first time you rode an actual rollercoaster, or haunted house, butterflies  in the chest and everything but this time you are going on alone no friends or family to go with you, with your only company being complete strangers who you will be forced to communicate with about some of the insane situations you are in.
   Please understand that I'm not trying to discourage anyone from joining, far from it, but I'm assuming that if you are going to join the program you're going to feel relatively similar to I am when the time to leave gets very close. By the way this isn't really a gradual dread that builds up like college or a disease, because at first going to americorps doesn't feel that real, because after all it's like 3 months away. But then those months start to pass and when you wake up around 11/12s of the way there you're gonna be face to face with a Freedom sized adrenaline sandwhich with a  heaping side order of doubt. Just remember though that you can finish this sandwich if you just power through and remember why you decided to join Americorps and what you were originally looking forward to, and like most giant sandwiches you get a t shirt upon completion.
    Now that that emotional tirade is out of the way I'm going to talk about what I did today, the ever exciting task of packing!

 For the last week or so I have been finding or buying items that I need to not die while serving my term in NCCC, these can range from things that protect your life like medicine and jackets, things that protect your decency like pants, toothbrushes and deodorant and things that keep you from going insane like books or a hobby related item. Most likely you're gonna wanna put in more things than you really need but I figured out for myself that I shouldn't be bringing that many t shirts or pants.
Entertainment items on the other hand really depend on the person, personally I'm bringing a crapton of both books and sketchbooks seeing as I am both a very fast reader and draw a lot of pictures in short periods of time, but if you're a slow reader or a guitar player don't pack that much.
This has been Isaac vizas and remember, the whole world is matchless!