This is officially the second e-mail update from beautiful Charleston, South Carolina. Mind you, I do say that with a tad bit of sarcasm. I'll tell ya, Charleston has it's own weather patterns, it's often hot and humid and can go from clear blue sky to dark and rainy very abruptly. Even when it does rain it rarely lasts very long. We are afterall right on the the coast, so that's probably all that needed to be said. To add to the sporadic weather, there are also plenty of mosquitoes and fire ants to go around. These little punks have colonies EVERYWHERE and they have a nasty bite. There have been many Corps members that have unknowingly planted their feet right on top of these mounds. I can't help but smile as I wiggle my toes in my oh-so-protective boots. Unfortunately these past few days I've been writing this update (I do it over a course of a couple days, it's hard to find time) the damn things have managed to infest my room, just today I put on a shirt only to find there were already occupants. Fun stuff. But not really.

Anyway, I don't recall if I explained to you guys what I've been doing in terms of work. Outside of team building exercises and such, for most of the weekdays I'm goin' through training to be certified by the Red Cross in such things as CPR, First Aid, Disaster Relief, and Mass Care. Actually just last week, for those of us who chose the position they took us out to a local state park to learn how to use chainsaws. It's not as easy as it looks. The most challenging aspect of it is just holdin' the saw for extended periods of time, not only is it heavy (depending on the size) but it's vibratin' like crazy. I should probably do some push ups. SHOULD.

Oh right the biggest highlight of last weekend which I've told some of you already, was that I went sky diving. That's right, I was involved in what I'd like to consider a controlled fall to the ground from 15,000 ft. I won't bother trying to describe the feeling, I'll just try to get the pictures developed and sent out to you guys as quickly as possible. Which may not be all that quick.

Project Update:

Unfortunately it looks like we'll still be in Charleston for our first major project, and it'll only be for a week. In comparison to the other team's projects, some of which are 6-8 weeks, ours is nothing. More specifically we're goin' to be helpin' out with an Octoberfest kind of festival, so seriously, it's nothing special. RUMOR has it that as a result of our short projects we might be some of the first to do disaster relief. But only time will tell. And it's not tellin' yet...

And here I draw this e-mail to a close, y'know this took me 3 days to write and 10 mintues to type. Oi...when I look over it, it doesn't seem like I've told you much at all. There's just too much to tell and so little time to do so. Well I hope you're all doin' as super as I am! Oh yeah, as a side note, my roommate might be leaving! But I'll save those details for the next e-mail. Man, never a dull moment around 'ere.

The one.

The only.

Choi. (Seriously I am THE one and only)